Business Policy and Strategy

Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Integration and OA Framework Development and Extension Cookbook

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This book is about the ways in which we can extend Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) and focuses on more recent tools and technology. Its primary focus is to show how we can integrate with EBS, personalize and develop OA Framework pages with EBS, and to show
how we can use BI Publisher to create and mail merge documents within EBS. The book
has many detailed examples to work through with tips and explanations about how various components can be configured and how we can extend standard functionality and the various ways in which we can do it. It complements my first book, Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Core Development and Extension Cookbook, which focuses on writing concurrent programs,
the personalization and development of professional forms, creating workflows, and using common utilities and scripts within EBS.
This book is aimed at developers who are new to E-Business Suite, or those who are strong in one particular area and need to expand their knowledge in other areas. Experienced developers may also use the book to brush up on their skills, or to pick up tips that may help them. The book focuses on the newer technologies being used in the more recent releases of EBS. There are plenty of detailed screenshots throughout each chapter giving clear instructions. This helps to provide a clear and full understanding of what we are doing and why. Each topic will develop a solution to a scenario, and will show how we need to set up our development tools right through to deploying it within EBS.
At the end of each chapter, the reader should have developed a good understanding of the topic and will be able to take away the knowledge gained and start using it in practice. The book also comes with complete, fully-tested code and scripts that can be downloaded. The examples have been developed using a Vision instance of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (12.1.1). It would be helpful to know some SQL, PL/SQL, XML, and Java, but it is not essential, as the code is already written and fully documented. We will be going through each chapter example step-by-step, so you will not be expected to write any code that is not detailed in the book.If you are new to Oracle EBS or a consultant who has worked with Oracle E-Business Suite before, you will be aware that there are many technical components to consider; there are many features using a range of different tools and the footprint seems to be expanding all the time. One of the key features of EBS is its flexibility. Not all organizations are the same and there are many ways you can configure EBS to make it specific to an organization’s needs. Whenever possible, an organization should always attempt to use standard functionality to meet their requirements. However, there are occasions where business requirements cannot be met using the standard Oracle-provided functionality, and this can be anything from renaming a label on a screen, to automating a process that would take many hours for someone to process manually.
There are various ways in which you can change behavior in Oracle EBS. The simplest
way to change behavior is through configuration. For example, extending Oracle through profile options, value sets, descriptive flexfields are ways to extend applications through configuration. In addition, Oracle also gives us the ability to change Oracle OA Framework pages through personalization. It is a powerful feature that allows us to change behavior without needing to change any standard objects. These are mechanisms provided by Oracle to change how the application looks, or how the application behaves. On the other hand, there are some extensions that require writing code, creating new objects, or even extending or replacing existing objects. These types of extensions are in addition to the code or
objects that Oracle delivers.
A powerful feature of Oracle is the ability to extend EBS, but when doing this, there is a strict set of development standards that must be adhered to. There are two primary ways to modify Oracle EBS; the first is customization by extension, as we have just described, and the second is customization by modification. Customization by modification is where standard objects are changed, meaning that the change needs to be reapplied when a newer version of the object is released by Oracle.
Customizations by modification are not supported by Oracle and should always be avoided. There are rarely occasions where there is a real business justification for a customization by modification. There are often alternatives, such as exploring other solutions or looking at ways to change the requirements or processes. It is important to understand the difference between customization by extension and customization by modification, as the two terms are often used loosely. When we extend Oracle EBS by supported methods, the standard functionality is still supported by Oracle as it has not been amended by the extension, whereas customization by modifying a standard object means the standard object also becomes unsupported by them. A worthwhile feature of Oracle EBS is that it uses a common toolset and also has a vast amount of documentation written about the supported ways in which you can extend the product. The first place to start would be the Oracle Release 12 Documentation Library.
This provides many documents, all relating to Oracle EBS. Another essential resource is Oracle Support (previously known as Metalink), which is a portal provided by Oracle for support, documentation, white papers, and patches among many other things related to
EBS. To access the portal, you need to register and you also need to provide a support identifier, which is only provided when there is a support contract with Oracle Support. So,
if you are new to EBS or if you have been around for a while, you can nearly always find examples or documentation relating to your specific requirement. There are nearly always numerous business processes and solutions available to satisfy it. The best way to provide a solution is to have an understanding of what options are available. Having knowledge of the various ways in which we can extend EBS will give us a much better chance of coming up with better solutions. This book will provide recipes that will cover some simple and some more complex solutions. It will utilize a majority of the Oracle toolset and will, hopefully, broaden your knowledge. Expanding our knowledge of the toolset will allow us to provide a more varied set of solutions, resulting in having a better chance of providing a better, more robust solution for a given problem.

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