How to Setup JDeveloper workspace for ADF Fusion Applications to run Business Component Tester?

Issue

When creating ADF applications using JDeveloper with Fusion Applications Extension, the Application Module Tester (Business Component Browser) will fail the following exception:

“(oracle.jbo.JboException) JBO-29000: Unexpected exception caught: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError, msg=Could not initialize class oracle.apps.fnd.applcore.oaext.model.OAApplicationModuleImpl”

Description:

The following picture shows the default libraries added to your Model project when creating an ADF Business Component from Tables:

After reviewing the Fusion Applications Developer Guide (here), you must add Applications Core and Applications Core (Attachments Model) libraries to the data model project (default is Model). However, when adding the above libraries into your project, it throws warnings for unable to resolve dependent libraries (secondary imports) such as Topology Manager, Functional Setup Model. Please see the following screens:

Solution:

You must select “Topology Manager” and “Functional Setup Module” along with Application Core and Application Core (Attachments Model) libraries. You must also add “Java EE 1.5” and “Java EE 1.5 API” libraries.

You will still get the following warning:

Business Components: Unable to load Business Components Project.  File not found.

    Object: oracle.apps.fnd.applxdf.dm.model.Model

    Owner:  oracle.apps.model.Model 

You can ignore it for now to run ADF Business Component Browser to test your ADF Model.

Note: This is a bug as I do not see this class in <Jdev location>/jdeveloper/atgpf/lib/oracle.apps.fnd.applxdf.jar file.

The following screen shows the libraries in your Model Project:

Note: Some of the libraries such as “Commons *” are automatically added with Application Core as secondary imports.