Oracle APEX has become the preferred platform for implementing Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) extensions. We are pleased to announce the availability of a new set of EBS 12.2 enhancements that embed Oracle APEX extensions in your EBS ecosystem.
What is Oracle APEX?
Oracle APEX is a low-code application development platform for the Oracle database. APEX combines the qualities of a personal database (productivity, ease of use, and flexibility) with the qualities of an enterprise database (security, integrity, performance, scalability, availability, and built for the web).
The browser-based interface, declarative programming framework, and simple wizards make Oracle APEX easy to learn and enable you to quickly build robust applications.
For more information about APEX, see the following: Oracle APEX Release 24.1 Documentation.
What’s New with the Enhanced Integration?
The following is a list of the new enhancements that allow you to develop extensions that are tightly integrated with your EBS environment:
- Register an APEX page using a new EBS function type
- Embedded or Full Window are the two supported modes.
- Embedded mode allows a custom APEX page to appear within an OA Framework page, providing a more consistent look and feel as the user moves between standard and custom pages.
- Full Window mode opens the APEX page on in a separate browser window.
- Navigate seamlessly from EBS to APEX using EBS-configured authentication
- Authentication can be either local or single sign-on (SSO) with Oracle Access Manager (OAM) or Identity Cloud Service (IDCS).
- Access is controlled via EBS function security authorization.
- Integrate an APEX workspace schema with EBS
- The APEX schema is registered as a custom EBS schema.
- The APEX schema is editions-enabled to work with EBS 12.2 Online Patching.
Where Can I Learn More About the Enhanced Integration?
A newly published technical paper that describes the full list of prerequisites and the steps to perform the integration is now available: Extending Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 with Oracle APEX (PDF).
Note: The list of prerequisites for the enahnced integration include EBS 12.2.7, Database 19c, and APEX 24.1. See the technical paper for the full list of prerequisites and steps to use the enhanced integration.
References
- Extending Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 with Oracle APEX (PDF)
- Developing and Deploying Customizations in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 (MOS Note 1577661.1)
- Oracle E-Business Suite Developer’s Guide (HTML)