Entries from Oracle E-Business Suite Technology tagged with 'extend'
Application Change Management Pack for EBS (OpenWorld 2009 Recap)
I recently wrote about the eternal dilemma of the Apps system implementer: whether it's worth customizing the E-Business Suite or not. Customizations and extensions introduce the challenge of deploying your customizations between multiple development, QA, and production environments. Our new Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite has the potential to help to with that, and a few other notable systems management tasks, too. The Application Change Management Pack is one of the most-interesting new lifecycle management products released recently from our Applications Technology Group. The Application Change Management Pack is an optional add-on to the Application Management Pack. The Application Management Pack is an Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control plug-in for the E-Business Suite. Ken Baxter and Biju Mohan covered the new Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite in detail in their OpenWorld 2009 session: * Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite: An Introduction (Session S309527, PDF, 2 MB)
To Customize or Not to Customize?
Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. ~ Henry Ford Ford's now-famous words seem a little quaint today. We live in the Golden Age of the Consumer, where virtually everything can be customized or personalized in some way. If you can customize mass-produced consumer goods, it seems reasonable to expect that you should be able to customize something as strategic and mission-critical as an enterprise resource planning system, too. But just because you can, does this mean that you should?
Critical Rollup Update for E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway Release 12.1.1
A critical Rollup Update for Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway Release 12.1.1 was released on August 21, 2009. It is a consolidated one-off fix to address some open issues in Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway Release 12.1.1. Patch 8459663 for Integrated SOA Gateway R12.1.1 is now available for download.
WebCenter 10g 10.1.3.4 Certified with E-Business Suite Release 12
Oracle Web Center is a suite of development tools that can be used to build web-based applications using technologies such as SOA, JSR-168, and WSRP. The Oracle WebCenter Framework allows you integrate E-Business Suite Release 12 portlets into a custom web-based application.
We certified Web Center 10.1.3.3 with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 last May. Following up on that certification train, Web Center 10.1.3.4 is now certified with Apps 12 (12.0.4 and higher).
OracleAS 10g Forms and Reports 10.1.2.3 Certified With EBS R12
I am pleased to announce that OracleAS 10g Forms and Reports version 10.1.2.3 is now certified with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12. EBS 12 ships with Forms 10.1.2.0.2. If you're still running that version, you now have the choice of updating to either Forms 10.1.2.2 or Forms 10.1.2.3. We strongly recommend Forms 10.1.2.3.
For the steps to upgrade to this latest version of Forms, refer to the Metalink Notes in the Documentation section below. Along with Form and Reports Services, Developer Suite 10.1.2.3 is also certified.
Sneak Preview: Portlet Generator and Business Service Object Generator for EBS (OpenWorld 2008 Recap)
I'm going to get through my OpenWorld backlog eventually. If I'm lucky, I'll be done just in time to start working on my OAUG/Collaborate backlog for next year's conference in Florida.
I'm (still) highlighting OpenWorld 2008 presentations that cover some of the most popular E-Business Suite technology stack topics. A catalog of all of the Applications Technology track sessions with links to the presentations is available here:
Ramkumar Sekar, a manager in our Applications Technology Group, gave sneak previews of two new developer-oriented tools for extending OA Framework applications in this session:
Integration Simplified: Native Service-Oriented Architecture in Oracle E-Business Suite (OpenWorld 2008 Recap)
I'm highlighting OpenWorld 2008 presentations that cover some of the most popular E-Business Suite technology stack topics. A catalog of all of the Applications Technology track sessions with links to the presentations is available here:
It's possible to integrate the E-Business Suite with external applications via a number of different interfaces and methods, including interface tables, concurrent programs, XML messages, EDI messages, PL/SQL APIs, Business Service Objects, and Business Events. There are over 2,500 service enabled integration points for the E-Business Suite today, with more being added regularly.
Veshaal Singh and Neeraj Chauhan from our Applications Technology Group discuss the latest techniques for integrating EBS with external applications using web services in this session:
- Integration Simplified: Native Service-Oriented Architecture in Oracle E-Business Suite (PDF, 1.2 MB)
Java Authentication + Authorization Services (JAAS) for E-Business Suite (OpenWorld 2008 Recap)
I'm highlighting OpenWorld 2008 presentations that cover some of the most popular E-Business Suite technology stack topics. A catalog of all of the Applications Technology track sessions with links to the presentations is available here:
Our Applications Technology Group announced an important set of new authentication capabilities for Java-based E-Business Suite extensions and custom programs at OpenWorld this year. Veshaal Singh, Director in our Applications Technology Group, discusses the new capabilities and how they relate to the E-Business Suite's existing security model in this presentation:
The Case of The Missing Database Links
Here's a scenario that might sound familiar to some of you: a customer built an extension for the E-Business Suite Release 11i using database links. When they upgraded their 9iR2 database to 10gR2, they were dismayed to find that those database links stopped working. They logged a Service Request and were surprised to be informed that, "Database links aren't supported with the E-Business Suite."
I ended up being involved in the resulting discussion. The support statement above isn't entirely correct, and the actual truth is more nuanced than you might think. This case illustrates something much more fundamental about "certification" and "support" of generic database features and options that all EBS developers should understand.
Filling Up Your OpenWorld 2008 Calendar
Sometimes it feels like my job consists primarily of keeping on top of the waves of emails rolling in my inbox. A recent wave of emails have been requests to profile certain OpenWorld 2008 events. In addition to the sessions that I'll be personally involved in, in some capacity or another, here are some EBS techstack-related things going at OpenWorld this year that you'll want to add to your calendar:
New Whitepaper: Mod_plsql and E-Business Suite 12
Many of you have raised questions about why mod_plsql was removed from Release 12. Others have asked what to do about their mod_plsql-based Apps 11i customizations and extensions when upgrading to R12. George Buzsaki,our preeminent E-Business Suite architect, has put together an excellent new whitepaper that addresses these topics, and more...
New Whitepaper: E-Business Suite Development Using OAF & ADF
Customers, partners and system integrators often develop extensions to Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) applications. Such extensions have traditionally used the same technology stack (Forms or OA Framework) that the original EBS application was built with. This ensured that the extensions...
JDeveloper 10g with OA Extension Updated for Apps 12.0.3
[Nov 6, 2007 update: If you are ever uncertain as to which JDeveloper patch to use with which Apps 11i or R12 release, see Note 416708.1, How to find the correct version of JDeveloper to use with eBusiness Suite 11i...
Integrating Apps 12 Portlets with Third-Party Portals
Here's the latest update on the ever-popular subject of integrating the E-Business Suite Release 12 with third-party portals. What's Possible in Release 11i TodayYou already know that the E-Business Suite Release 11i portlets are written to work exclusively with Oracle...
Latest JDeveloper 10g with OA Extension Now Available for Apps 12
[Nov 6, 2007 Update: A newer version for Apps 12.0.3 has just been released. See this article for details]A new update has just been released for Oracle JDeveloper 10g with OA Extension for E-Business Suite Release 12 environments. The latest...
Using Forms + Reports 10g Builders with Release 12
[Oct 19, 2007 Update: A bug prevented the execution of any Oracle Reports on 10.1.2.2 on the IBM AIX platform. Patch 6341158 has been released to resolve this issue]Good things always seem to happen while I'm out of the office. ...
New Descriptive Flexfield Context Synchronization in Release 11i
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.~ Samuel McChord CrothersWhoops. ...
Upgrading Release 12 to Forms 10.1.2.2
I'm pleased to announce that you can now upgrade your Release 12 environments to use the latest version of Forms & Reports 10g. This caps off a string of recent new certifications, including Single Sign-On 10.1.4.0.1, Portal 10.1.4.1, and Web...
Looking for OA Framework Personalization and Extension Case Study
This year at OpenWorld, I'd like to showcase some real-world personalizations and extensions that our customers have done. Rather than just talking about the features in general, it's time to show what those features are already doing! So I'm looking...
OA Framework or ADF?
[Editor Update 4/22/2008: A new whitepaper from the Oracle Appliations Technology Group comparing OAF and ADF is now available. See this article for more details.][July 9, 2007 - see "One more thing to consider", below - Sara]A question I've been...
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