Oracle Developer 10g 10.1.2.0.2 Crash On Windows 7 While Opening Forms Modules!

and one of my observations was strictly around the connection to database. I found forms those make calls to database level packages/procedures/functions crashing the developer when they are opened while no established connection with database exists.

Recently I was contacted by one of the visitors asking for help to resolve his issues with the crashes experienced while opening forms those were developed by someone else. We had a short TeamViewer session I realized that the issues were more than mere database connection specific. Then I remembered fixing few of such issues which were caused by missing table columns, packages/procedures/functions at the database level.

Then I remembered that Developer 6i hardly ever crashed due to missing objects, instead it did warn. As I had a classic domain setup using Weblogic 12c 12.2.1.3 recently with forms and reports developers, I decided to open this problematic forms module with the 12c forms developer.

One of the major nuisances a developer (definitely) will come across while using this obsolete version of Oracle Developer on Windows 7 or later versions of Microsoft OS is, opening a module that has underlying database level objects changed (procedures/functions/packages), this IDE crashes without generating any error logs. Simple as it is. This could completely cripple the developer, especially when rapid developments miss to document the changes.

[INFO] Forms configuration started at: Fri Apr 07 08:51:49 UTC 2006[INFO] Container Name = forms[INFO] Error creating forms application entity[INFO] oracle.ias.repository.directory.DirectoryReader.connectSsl(DirectoryReader.java:96)[INFO] oracle.ias.repository.directory.DirectoryReader.connect(DirectoryReader.java:106)[INFO] oracle.ias.repository.IASSchema.getOIDVersion(IASSchema.java:341)[INFO] oracle.ias.repository.SchemaManager.getOIDVersion(SchemaManager.java:279)[INFO] oracle.ias.forms.config.CreateAppEntity.makeOidEntry(CreateAppEntity.java:40)[INFO] oracle.ias.forms.config.FormsConfig.startOIDIntegration(FormsConfig.java:360)[INFO] oracle.ias.forms.config.FormsConfig.enableConfigWithOID(FormsConfig.java:612)[INFO] oracle.ias.forms.config.FormsConfig.main(FormsConfig.java:1088)[INFO] Forms OID integration failed[INFO] Starting file instantiation[INFO] Error while instantiating[INFO] Forms configuration ended at: Fri Apr 07 08:51:49 UTC 2006[INFO]_________ ABORTING CLONE OPERATION ________[INFO] An error has occured. Aborting the clone operation. 2b1af7f3a8