Establishing direct connection to ESRI geodatabase on Oracle hangs while not in debug mode

Question

Recently I have been trying to establish direct connection to oracle geodatabase using Java API.

The problem is, that when I execute the code, the connection works fine only in debug mode when I execute the program step by step. In all other cases the program hangs trying to establish the connection.

Here is a piece of code that I use:

public class SdeTest {  
    public static void main(String[] args) {  
        SeConnection connection = null;  
        try {  
            System.out.println("Connecting");  
            connection = new SeConnection("none", "sde:oracle11g:geobase_tns", "none", "{my-user}", "{my-password}@geobase_tns");  
            System.out.println("CONNECTION OK");  
        } catch (SeException e) {  
            e.printStackTrace();  
        } finally {  
            if(connection != null) {  
                try {  
                    connection.freeAllLocks();  
                    connection.close();  
                } catch (SeException e) {  
                    e.printStackTrace();  
                }  
            }  
        }  
    }  
}  

Here is my system configuration:

System: Windows 7 Professional 64bit

Java: 8 update 40 64 bit

Oracle client: Oracle 11g 64bit

ArcSDE SDK: 10.2.2 64bit

Other settings.

1. I have created SDEHOME system variable and its value points to a folder on the disk. Inside the folder I created 'bin' directory and filled it with the following files:

icudt44.dll

icuuc44.dll

pe.dll

sg.dll

xerces-c_3_1.dll

sde.dll

sdejavautil.dll

gsrvrora11g102.dll

sdeora11gsrvr102.dll

2. The path to {SDEHOME}/bin is added to the Path of the system.

3. The path to {SDEHOME}/bin is added to Java VM: -Djava.library.path={absolute-path-to-bin-folder}

4. The oracle databases are fine, I cann see my spatial data with ArcCatalog.

5. Here is my TNS definition:

geobase_tns =

  (DESCRIPTION =

(ADDRESS_LIST =

  (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = {my-host-ip})(PORT = {my-port-number}))

)

(CONNECT_DATA =

  (SERVICE_NAME = {my-service-name})

)

)

6. Here is my sqlnet.ora file:

SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES= (NONE)

NAMES.DIRECTORY_PATH= (TNSNAMES, EZCONNECT)

What I've already tried.

1. I tried to use other java versions

2. I tried to add ORACLE_HOME system variable and pointed it to my oracle client installation

3. I disabled Windows firewall and my antivirus system.

4. I tried connecting to both 9.3.1 oracle geodatabase and 10.3 oracle geodatabase.

In each case I got the same result: stepping in debug mode is fine, running the application freely - hangs.

At this point I am run out of ideas. I can see in my IDE (eclipse - mars) that it holds at SeConnection.createDirectConnection() method.

Can someone give me some suggestions why it behaves like that ? Maybe I missed something while preparing the system for direct connection.

Answer 1

This is a bug with the 10.2.2 SDE SDK. BUG-000087489.

Java 1.6 will definitely not have this problem. That's the workaround I use. You could also try lower releases of Java 1.7 or 1.8.