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Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Core Development and Extension Cookbook

By : Andy Penver
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Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Core Development and Extension Cookbook

By: Andy Penver

Overview of this book

Oracle's suite of applications is used by many major businesses and public sector organizations throughout the world. The book will show you how to build different types of extensions with different toolsets with Oracle E-Business Suite R12. It will take you from start to finish with fully working examples. This book will show you how to extend Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12. You will learn highly desirable skills on how to extend the application and develop your expertise. The book will provide detailed information about why things have to be done in certain ways, and will take you through the process of how to get started, what tools are needed, how to develop working examples, and how to deploy them within the application. Learn how to extend Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Release 12. There are detailed examples to work through, such as how various components are configured and how we can extend standard functionality. The book focuses on core development and extension and each chapter will introduce a topic before going through working examples from start to finish. There are plenty of detailed screen shots throughout each chapter giving clear instructions of what we are doing and why. Each recipe will develop a solution that will utilize core components to that topic. The Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Core Development and Extension Cookbook focuses on starting an extension right from the beginning, to deploying it within E-Business Suite. At the end of each chapter the reader will have a good understanding of what they need to do for each area to take away, and start using it in practice. Each chapter will detail how to build an extension in the supported manner and also comes with complete fully tested code, and scripts that can be downloaded.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Core Development and Extension Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface

Creating a business event


We are now going to create a business event that will trigger the workflow that we created in the previous recipe.

In this recipe, we will perform the following tasks:

  • Setup — Set up the Workflow Administrator responsibility

  • Creating an agent — The agent is a named communication point which we will configure for our advanced queue

  • Creating an agent listener — The agent listener will monitor the advanced queue for any activity

  • Defining a business event — The business event will be triggered each time there is a new payload added to the advanced queue

  • Subscribing to a business event — We will finally subscribe to the business event which will launch our workflow

Setting up the workflow administrator responsibility

We need to configure which responsibility is the workflow administrator. This will allow us to view all of the workflows we generate. We can assign a specific responsibility as the administrator or set the value to * and all responsibilities will have administrator...