by Jose Jimenez | Mar 7, 2020 | White Paper
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Abstract
This presentation was created to help Oracle Forms Developers transition their current
Oracle Forms skill set to the next version of forms development called Application
Development Framework (ADF). ADF has been around since 2004 but most Oracle
Forms Developers are just now having to learn ADF because Oracle is developing future
applications and products using a new technology stack which supports ADF. ADF is
based on the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) set of standards. This means that
Oracle Forms Developers will need to transition their existing skill sets and/or acquire
new skill sets to develop applications and forms in a Web based environment. In others
words, Oracle Forms Developers will need to be become Web Developers and this white
paper will help you start your journey into becoming a Web Developer via ADF.
In order to build ADF applications, Oracle has provided a new integrated development
environment (IDE) called JDeveloper. JDeveloper is similar to Oracle Forms in that its
purpose is to simplify application development by providing a visual and declarative
approach to building your application or form. Unlike the Oracle Forms tool which can
build Oracle Forms applications, JDeveloper includes a development environment that
supports SQL, PL/SQL, Java, XML, HTML, JavaScript, BPEL, and PHP. Since
JDeveloper is a multi-purpose IDE tool, you will be intimidated by the layout, menu
options, profile options and wizards, as compared to the existing E-Business Suite
environment where there is a separate IDE for each Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, Oracle
Workflow and XML Gateway.
From my experience, some of your Oracle Forms skill sets can transition very easily
while others will be a challenge. In addition, there are several new skills to learn and
based on your past experience and/or education with Web Development, the learning
curve can be fairly short but in most cases it will require an extended amount of effort.
Remember when you first started developing in Oracle Forms, it took only a few days to
build a simple form but it took you months or years to master it. The same can be applied
to building ADF forms and applications. In fact, it will take longer to master ADF
because there are hundreds of more components and services to learn.
This white paper will highlight the skill sets required to build your ADF application,
steps required to set up your development environment, basic navigation of the Oracle
JDeveloper software, building an ADF application with comparison to Oracle Form
development and provide some understanding on how to deploy an ADF application.
Objective
- What are the challenges with transitioning from Oracle Forms to Oracle ADF?
- How to learn the required programming skill set to build ADF applications?
- What are the basic ADF concepts?
- Provide side by side comparisons between Oracle Forms and Oracle ADF.
- Provide links to relevant websites explaining key concepts.
Author: Tom Korbecki
by Jose Jimenez | Mar 7, 2020 | White Paper
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Abstract
This presentation will explain my journey from an Oracle EBS Forms Developer to an
Oracle ADF Pages Developer. My journey starts as an experienced Oracle Forms
Developer that is starting a new Oracle ADF application with no knowledge of Oracle
ADF “skill set” and ends with supporting an ADF application. Prior to starting this new
Oracle ADF application, I had attended some formal Java education training classes, but
that was ten years ago so I only remember concepts.
This white paper will highlight the skill sets required to build your ADF application, the steps required to set up your development environment, basic navigation of the Oracle JDeveloper software, creating an ADF application in comparison to Oracle Form development, and finally deploying that application in a WebLogic /Oracle EBS environment.
Objective
- What are the challenges with transitioning from Oracle Forms to Oracle ADF?
- How to learn the required programming skillset to build ADF applications?
- What are the basic ADF concepts?
- Provide side-by-side comparisons between Oracle Forms and Oracle ADF.
- How to deploy an application in a Weblogic / Oracle EBS environment?
- Provide links to relevant websites explaining key concepts.
Author: Tom Korbecki
by Jose Jimenez | Mar 7, 2020 | White Paper
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Topics covered
- Generate reports in Character Mode for WYSIWYG
- How functions work within a report
- Are there pro’s/con’s to using multiple queries vs. a single query with joins in a report?
- How best to manage groups of data so that little or no intervention is needed to the report layout.
- Best approach to adding an additional field to a report layout.
- Layout navigation – Secrets to moving or centering objects.
- Layout (grouping, breaks, use of different formats, page setups)
- Creating and dropping temp tables in reports. Doing massive amounts of “setup” queries before the reports can be generated. Or, failing that, calling a report from PL/SQL.
- Advanced Topics
Author: Tom Korbecki
by Jose Jimenez | Mar 7, 2020 | White Paper
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Abstract
This presentation will discuss techniques for extending standard Advanced Pricing functionality to integrate with custom applications. An overview of the Advanced Pricing module, using the PRICE_REQUEST API, mapping attributes to custom data sources, and use of GET_CUSTOM_PRICE will be discussed.
Objective
Oracle Application’s Advanced Pricing (QP) module is a flexible, extendable module that provides a common source for setting up rules to derive prices. This paper will define key components of the Advanced Pricing module, present methods and identify components to extend aspects of the module to custom data and discuss the risks and rewards of customization.
Author: Chris Herdic
by Jose Jimenez | Mar 7, 2020 | White Paper
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Abstract
Organizations are always searching to reduce cost and improve efficiency within their
companies and one good candidate for such improvement is the paper-based accounts
payable (AP) invoice process. Paper-based invoice processing by its very nature is
manually intensive because so many individuals have to “touch” the document before it
can be paid. For example, the AP Department needs to extract any paper-based invoices
from the mail envelope and then coordinate the end-to-end process for each invoice. The
coordination includes: reviewing and routing the invoice for approval, validating the
approval(s), entering the invoices for payment. Throughout the life cycle of the invoice,
the AP Department also needs to know the real time status of the invoice.
In order to improve the efficiency, organizations have automated portions of the AP
process by receiving invoices electronically and/or most storing invoices digitally;
however, the most inefficient process such as entering the invoice, coordinating the
approval(s) and knowing the real time status of the invoice still needs to be improved.
The purpose of this white paper is to explain how organizations can improve their AP invoice process.
Author: Tom Korbecki
