When SQL Developer is idle I lose my connection

Question

My problem is this: I am running Oracle 10G on windows 98 on a virtual machine using VMWare on my desktop computer. I can connect to several users (SYS, HR, OE, ... ) with

Answer 1

As the suggested extensions in this thread have had issues with recent versions of SQL Developer, I tried my way and got scristalli's code to work in a new project based on his code AND the oracle example repo.

Needs a lot of work but oh well, at least I can install the new build on SQLDev v19.2 and it works as expected.

Disclaimer: I'm the owner of the linked repo, although it's MIT as the previous versions. Feel free to fork it, pullrequest-it or do as you like