Why use two different OracleAS 10g releases in two different ORACLE_HOMEs for the upcoming Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12?  Because you asked for it, of course.  Well, indirectly, perhaps.  You’ve been asking us when E-Business Suite users can take advantage of the latest Oracle technologies.  So, we’re biting the bullet and putting them into our Release technology stack.

Release 12 Application Tier ORACLE_HOMEs:


The latest version of Forms and Reports available today is included in Oracle Application Server 10g 10.1.2.0.2, so that release, at minimum, will be part of the E-Business Suite Release 12.

You’ve been clamoring for the ability to use Oracle Containers for Java (OC4J), the next-generation successor to JServ.  The latest version of Oracle Containers for Java available today is included in Oracle Application Server 10g 10.1.3, so that release, at minimum, will be part of the E-Business Suite Release 12, too.

The slightly tricky thing is using these two releases together.  In a nutshell, all major services will be started out of the 10.1.3 ORACLE_HOME.  The E-Business Suite modules (packaged in formsapp.eap) will be loaded into the OC4J-Forms instance running out of the 10.1.3 ORACLE_HOME, and frmweb will be invoked out of the 10.1.2 ORACLE_HOME.

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