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I have been trying to create an OCI connection in the database navigator using Jdev 11.1.2.3. Following these docs:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E35521_01/user.111230/e17455/connect_work_databases.htm#OJDUG5131
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E35521_01/user.111230/e17455/connect_work_databases.htm#OJDUG2432

I'm on a 64 bit platform. So the first thing I do is set JDev to use 64bit JDK by editing the jdev.conf file i.e.
...
# Directive SetJavaHome is not required by default, except for the base
# install, since the launcher will determine the JAVA_HOME.  On Windows
# it looks in ..\..\jdk, on UNIX it first looks in ../../jdk. If no JDK
# is found there, it looks in the PATH.
#
#SetJavaHome D:\Oracle\Jdev\111230-prod\jdk160_24
SetJavaHome C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_39
...

I'll also add the parameters for JDBC driver and path to the OCI dll's.

 #For JDBC for OCI
AddVMOption -Doracle.jdbc.library=D:\Oracle\JDBC\instantclient\x86-64\11.1.0.7.0\ojdbc6.jar
AddNativeCodePath D:\Oracle\JDBC\instantclient\x86-64\11.1.0.7.0

When I start JDev, I receive a warning for the parameter AddNativeCodePath. And I'm unable to connect.

[sracanov@SRACANOV-AU D]$ jdev -verbose
WARNING: Unknown directive: AddNativeCodePath
savedArg0 = D:\Oracle\JDev\111230-prod\jdeveloper\jdev\bin\jdev.exe
VM to launch C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_39\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll
Restarting the launcher with the 64bit version
Reading exe header from jvm.dll, Machine=8664
Jvm is 64bit
Checking toplevel for D:\Oracle\JDev\111230-prod\jdeveloper\jdev\bin\..\..\ide\bin\launcher.dll = 0
About to relaunch with command line: D:\Oracle\JDev\111230-prod\jdeveloper\jdev\bin\jdev64.exe -verbose
WARNING: Unknown directive: AddNativeCodePath
 ...

It seems AddNativeCodePath is not recognised as a parameter. So I've comment out the line and start it by passing the library in that path environment variable.

[sracanov@SRACANOV-AU D]$ set path=D:\Oracle\JDBC\instantclient\x86-64\11.1.0.7.0;%path%

[sracanov@SRACANOV-AU D]$ jdev -verbose
savedArg0 = D:\Oracle\JDev\111230-prod\jdeveloper\jdev\bin\jdev.exe
VM to launch C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_39\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll
Restarting the launcher with the 64bit version
Reading exe header from jvm.dll, Machine=8664
Jvm is 64bit
Checking toplevel for D:\Oracle\JDev\111230-prod\jdeveloper\jdev\bin\..\..\ide\bin\launcher.dll = 0
About to relaunch with command line: D:\Oracle\JDev\111230-prod\jdeveloper\jdev\bin\jdev64.exe -verbose
savedArg0 = D:\Oracle\JDev\111230-prod\jdeveloper\jdev\bin\jdev64.exe
VM to launch C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_39\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll
JNI Option: -Xbootclasspath/a:C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_39\lib\tools.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_39\lib\dt.jar
JNI Option: -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true
JNI Option: -Dnetbeans.home=../../netbeans/platform/
JNI Option: -Dnetbeans.logger.console=true
JNI Option: -Dexcluded.modules=org.eclipse.osgi
JNI Option: -Dide.cluster.dirs=../../netbeans/netbinox/:../../netbeans/bridge/:../../
JNI Option: -Xmx800M
JNI Option: -Xms128M
JNI Option: -Xverify:none
JNI Option: -Doracle.ide.extension.HooksProcessingMode=LAZY
JNI Option: -Dorg.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator.configUrl=file:bundles.info
JNI Option: -Dosgi.bundles=file:../ide/lib/oracle.ide.osgi.jar@3:start
JNI Option: -Dosgi.bundles.defaultStartLevel=1
JNI Option: -Dosgi.configuration.cascaded=false
JNI Option: -Dosgi.noShutdown=true
JNI Option: -Dorg.osgi.framework.bootdelegation=*
JNI Option: -Dosgi.parentClassloader=app
JNI Option: -Xbootclasspath/p:../../rdbms/jlib/ojdi.jar
JNI Option: -Dosgi.classloader.singleThreadLoads=true
JNI Option: -Dosgi.bundlefile.limit=2000
JNI Option: -Xbootclasspath/a:../../../oracle_common/modules/oracle.nlsrtl_11.1.0/orai18n-collation.jar
JNI Option: -Xbootclasspath/a:../../../oracle_common/modules/oracle.nlsrtl_11.1.0/orai18n-mapping.jar
JNI Option: -Xbootclasspath/a:../../../oracle_common/modules/oracle.nlsrtl_11.1.0/orai18n-servlet.jar
JNI Option: -Xbootclasspath/a:../../../oracle_common/modules/oracle.nlsrtl_11.1.0/orai18n-utility.jar
JNI Option: -Xbootclasspath/a:../../../oracle_common/modules/oracle.nlsrtl_11.1.0/orai18n.jar
JNI Option: -Xbootclasspath/a:../../../oracle_common/modules/oracle.xdk_11.1.0/xmlparserv2.jar
JNI Option: -Djavax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory=oracle.xml.jaxp.JXDocumentBuilderFactory
JNI Option: -Djavax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory=oracle.xml.jaxp.JXSAXParserFactory
JNI Option: -Dorg.xml.sax.driver=oracle.xml.parser.v2.SAXParser
JNI Option: -Dide.feedback-server=ide.us.oracle.com
JNI Option: -Xbootclasspath/a:../../ide/lib/xml-factory.jar
JNI Option: -Djavax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory=oracle.ide.xml.SwitchableTransformerFactory
JNI Option: -XX:MaxPermSize=288M
JNI Option: -Xbootclasspath/p:../lib/lwawt.jar
JNI Option: -Xbootclasspath/p:../lib/apt-expose.jar
JNI Option: -Dsun.awt.keepWorkingSetOnMinimize=true
JNI Option: -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
JNI Option: -Doracle.jdeveloper.webservice.showAllOwsmPolicyTypes=false
JNI Option: -Doracle.jdeveloper.webservice.hidePropertyOverride=false
JNI Option: -Dsun.awt.disablegrab=true
JNI Option: -Xbootclasspath/p:../../rdbms/jlib/ojdi.jar
JNI Option: -Dide.patches.dir=jdev/lib/patches
JNI Option: -Doracle.jdbc.library=D:\Oracle\JDBC\instantclient\x86-64\11.1.0.7.0\ojdbc6.jar
JNI Option: -Dide.startingArg0=D:\Oracle\JDev\111230-prod\jdeveloper\jdev\bin\jdev64.exe
JNI Option: -Dide.startingArg1=-verbose
JNI Option: -Dide.launcherProcessId=5428
...




I've used an instance client here which you can read about the setup here.