I use JDeveloper on an almost daily basis and when something as basic and fundamental to the product as the rename functionality breaks, it makes you want to tear your hair out. I'm talking about the Refactor Rename feature that has been broken since the 12c release. Luckily there is a workaround.

This is the error that appears when you try to do a Rename: SEVERE: There are no rename handlers for oracle.jdevimpl.java.editing.JavaViewSelectionHelper$SourceElementElement registered with the RenameHandlerService!. Weird right, no rename handler? Something odd is going on!

The rename functionality is accessed via the pop-up menu in the editor. Select a variable to rename, right-click it, open the Refactor sub-menu and click Rename.


The Messages Log window will then show something like this:


Now this issue manifests only if whatever you are trying to rename does not appear in the Structure window. So if you have statics hidden and try to rename a static object (like I did), you will get the error.


The workaround is to simply show everything in the Structure window. It's as simple as that.



-i