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

By : Andy Penver
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Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Integration and OA Framework 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. Oracle E-Business Suite is the most comprehensive suite of integrated, global business applications that enable organizations to make better decisions, reduce costs, and increase performance. The book will show you how to build different types of extensions with different toolsets. It will take you from start to finish with fully working examples.This book will show readers a wide variety of step-by-step examples of how to extend Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 in a number of areas. The book focuses on OA Framework personalization and development, WebADI, and BI Publisher. It will take readers through the process of how to get started and what tools are needed. It will explain how to develop working examples and how to deploy them within Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12. Learn how to extend Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Release 12, using detailed examples to work through how various components are configured and how we can extend standard functionality. The book focuses on OA Framework personalization and development, desktop integration (formerly WebADI), and BI Publisher and each chapter will introduce the topic before going through working examples from start to finish. There are plenty of detailed illustrations throughout each chapter giving clear instructions of what we are doing and why. Each topic will develop a solution that will utilize common core components of a subject area. It 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 (15 chapters)
Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Integration and OA Framework Development and Extension Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Generating XML output using a concurrent program


To generate XML output using a concurrent program, we simply need to write valid XML content to the concurrent program's output file. This can be done in a variety of ways, for example, PL/SQL procedure, SQL Query, and so on. We are going to explore the PL/SQL method.

The first step is to create a database package containing a single procedure that uses multiple calls of FND_FILE.put_line to write text to the Output File. Once that's done, we will define a concurrent program that calls our PL/SQL procedure and in turn delivers the desired output.

Getting ready

Firstly, what is XML? Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. XML documents normally begin by declaring some information about themselves, as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

This is also known as the prologue. It contains the XML declaration...