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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
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Extracting data using FNDLOAD


Oracle provides a tool called FNDLOAD, which is also known as the generic loader. This tool is actually a concurrent program that performs the migration of the configuration data between instances of Oracle E-Business Suite. It is a command-line utility that is usually executed via a script. There are two stages to migrating configuration. The first step is to download the configuration from one environment and the second is to upload it to a target environment. The download process creates a file or files with an LDT extension, which is a text file. There are a number of benefits to using FNDLOAD. It means there is no manual user entry, which is prone to error. It is also much quicker to use than manual configuration. The limitation of FNDLOAD is that there are only a limited number of configuration items that can be migrated with FNDLOAD. These are the following:

  • Request Groups

  • Lookups

  • Descriptive Flexfields

  • Key Flexfield Structures

  • Printer Styles

  • Concurrent Programs...