I have a 10.1.3.1 ADF Faces application which uses the mycompany skin. When I deploy on my laptop (Windows XP) using standalone OC4J or the app server that comes with SOA 10.1.3, the UI looks fine.

When I deploy to standalone OC4J on a Linux server, or the app server that comes with SOA 10.1.3, the UI looks OK except the buttons are regular browser buttons, not generated images.

As far as I can tell no images are being generated on Linux. After turning on logging to FINE I see the following message in the oc4j log file:

Finished initializing image cache: /home/10gAS/j2ee/os_poc/application-deployments/os_job_manager_ui/job_management_ui/temp/adf/images/cache/en/

but the directory is always empty.

Does anyone have any ideas? I read about generation of images by UIX requiring an XServer on UNIX, is that true of JSF?

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

In my company we have exactly the same problem custom skin for buttons doesn't work as should after deploying on OAS on Linux server

Kuba

Hi Didier,

We are using followig systems:
RedHat Enterprise
SuSe
Fedora

How to resolve problem you have described ?

Kuba

Hi,

I use custom skin. With default adf faces skin applications work well. We are using OAS 10.1.3.
What does mind "culprit" skin(s) ?

I have following button definition in css

/************************************************************************
* BUTTON ENABLED
************************************************************************/
.AFButtonServerText:alias
{
background-color: #014F28;
color: #FFFF00;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
text-align: center;
}

.AFButtonStartIcon:alias
{
content:url(/css/img/buttonEnabled-Left.jpg);
width:3px;
height:20px;
}

.AFButtonEndIcon:alias
{
content:url(/css/img/buttonEnabled-Right.jpg);
width:3px;
height:20px;
}

.AFButtonTopBackgroundIcon:alias
{
content:url(/css/img/buttonEnabled-Top.jpg);
width:1px;
height:2px;
}

.AFButtonBottomBackgroundIcon:alias
{
content:url(/css/img/buttonEnabled-Bottom.jpg);
width:1px;
height:2px;
}

/************************************************************************
* BUTTON DISABLED
************************************************************************/

.AFButtonServerTextDisabled:alias
{
padding 2px;
background-color:#CCCCCC;
color:#666666;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
text-align: center;
}

.AFButtonDisabledStartIcon:alias
{
content:url(/css/img/buttonDisabled-Left.jpg);
width:10px;
height:18px;
}

.AFButtonDisabledEndIcon:alias
{
content:url(/css/img/buttonDisabled-Right.jpg);
width:10px;
height:18px;
}

.AFButtonDisabledTopBackgroundIcon:alias
{
content:url(/css/img/buttonDisabled-Top.jpg);
width:1px;
height:3px;
}

.AFButtonDisabledBottomBackgroundIcon:alias
{
content:url(/css/img/buttonDisabled-Bottom.jpg);
width:1px;
height:3px;
}

Kuba

Didier,

Thank you so much for your reply! The font was the cause of the problem.

I had only specified Tahoma in the font-family. That font is clearly not installed on the Linux system.

I modified the css file for my skin to specify Lucida and Dialog as the fonts for the buttons. Using Lucida makes the button fairly close to the Tahoma we are using in the rest of the application.

I have not done any testing to determine which other fonts might be valid.

Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction!

Jim

Hello:

I'm having this same problem, but with the oracle default skin.

It happens from one deploy to another, in the ondemand's servers.
1.- The deploy I send on Monday works ok, but I have to correct some things in the code,

2.- Then, I had to send the deploy on Thursday, and the problem was there, no buttons or panelPage features are rendered correctly.

Is there any reason or activity during the deploy execution that could be the cause of this behavior?

This is urgent.

Thnks in advance.