I’ve been puzzled by a resurgence in questions about the compatibility of E-Business Suite Release 12 portlets with third-party portals.  I thought that I’d already covered this FAQ a few times on this blog, but searching through our archives, I see
that I haven’t revisited this topic formally since R12 was released.  It’s time for a quick refresher and update on what’s supported in this release.

11i Apps Navigator:

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 includes two sets of portlets.  The first can only be used with Oracle Portal.  A subset of those portlets are also JSR-168/WSRP 1.0-compatible and can be used in any third-party portal that complies with those
standards. 

The Release 12 JSR-168/WSRP 1.0-compatible portlets are:

  • Applications Navigator: shows EBS menus based on a user’s assigned responsibilities
  • Applications Worklist: shows Oracle Workflow Notifications
  • Applications Favorites: Allows users to bookmark menu items for frequently-used EBS functions

Sneak Preview: EBS R12 Portlet Generator

The set of prebuilt portlets is relatively small, but there’s an interesting new utility on the horizon.  Ramkumar Sekar, a manager in our Applications Technology Group, gave a sneak preview of an upcoming tool that will help you create your own custom
EBS portlets based on regions from selected OA Framework pages.  For pointers to that presentation and more details about this tool, see:

Architecture diagram showing new Portlet Generator and Business Service Object Generator for extending OA Framework applications

These tools haven’t been released yet, and as usual, I don’t have a firm schedule that. Nonetheless, this session is worth checking out if you’re interested in seeing what’s to come in the near future.

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