• Set 1 - March 2014
• Set 2 - May 2014
• Set 3 - July 2014
• Set 4 - October 2014
• Set 5 - November 2014
• Set 6 - March 2015
• Set 7 - October 2015
• Set 8 - January 2016
• Set 9 - April 2016
  

We have now made available a tenth set of critical updates to AD and TXK.These updates are included in EBS 12.2.6.  You have a choice:  you can apply the EBS 12.2.6 Release Update Pack or you can apply the AD and TXK updates separately.

We strongly recommend that you apply either EBS 12.2.6 or these new AD and TXK updates at your earliest convenience:

• R12.AD.C.Delta 8 (Patch 2181299)
• R12.TXK.C.Delta.8 (Patch 21830810)

They can be downloaded from My Oracle Support, as shown by this example for AD:

Refer to the following My Oracle Support knowledge document for full installation instructions and associated tasks:

• Applying the Latest AD and TXK Release Update Packs to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 (Doc ID 1617461.1)
  

What's New in this Patchset?

This patchset includes a large number of critical fixes for stability issues that will affect all customers.  It also includes the following new features:

• Delta synchronization for more efficient Online Patching cycles, with streamlined handling of seed data and the Applications file system
• Improved log file structure to make diagnostics easier and more-readable
• Expanded Application Short Name to 16 characters
• Support for Logical Host Names
• Support for 64-bit JDK on Concurrent Manager tier
  

Related Articles

• EBS Error Correction Policy Updated for EBS 12.2
• Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.6 Now Available
  

Hello Oracle Cloud User,

Major releases are the primary vehicle for delivering new product functionality to the Cloud Applications fleet. In addition, the fleet receives a monthly update. As you would expect, monthly updates address product issues discovered mid-release. But, they can also serve as a vehicle for communicating new functionality delivered off-cycle via monthly updates.

Your Action:  If you are live or implementing one of the product areas below, check out the associated content to learn about the recent changes. The Revision History section at the beginning of each document will serve as your pointer.

Fusion Applications Release 11 

Human Capital Management

• Global HR, R11 September Update, RCD
• Global HR, R11 September Update, What's New
• HCM Common, R11 September Update, RCD
• HCM Common, R11 September Update, What's New
• Workforce Management, R11 September Update, RCD
• Workforce Management, R11 September Update, What's New

Customer Experience

• Sales, R11 September Update, What's New

FA Release 10 & Additional SaaS Product Lines  

Enterprise Resource Planning

• Project Portfolio Management, R10 September Update, RCD

Human Capital Management

• Global HR, R10 September Update, RCD
• Global HR, R10 September Update, What's New

Talent Management

• Taleo Learn, 16B1, RCD
• Taleo Learn, 16B1, What's New
• Taleo Performance Management, 15B, What's New
• Talent Acquisition, 15B, What's New

 Enterprise Performance Management

• Account Reconciliation, September Update, RCD
• Enterprise Performance Reporting, September 2016, RCD
• Enterprise Performance Reporting, September 2016, What's New
• Financial Consolidation Close, September Update, RCD
• Planning and Budgeting, September Update, RCD

Customer Experience

• Commerce, August 2016, What's New
• Field Service, August 2016, What's New
• Service, August 2016, What's New
• Responsys, 6.29, What's New

The quick access links above are provided for your convenience. You can always access the full set of Release Readiness content here. 

Welcome to Red Maverick’s sixth video, the third of the Business Travel Request Management Series. In this series we’ll guide you on how to build a complete, working BPM application using  Oracle’s Process Cloud Service. For this part, the focus is on doing the final configurations and connecting all the dots, making the application fully functional. This scenario and video was first prepared by me for Link Consulting‘s Process Cloud event, that was held in July 2015. Watch the video here.

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Oracle E-Business Suite includes a set of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) products such as Sales, Marketing, Service, e-Commerce, Contracts, and Interaction Center applications.  This group of products depends upon a set of E-Business Suite technology libraries that are related to OA Framework (OAF) but which need to be updated separately.

These technology libraries comprise the Oracle CRM Technology Foundation (JTT).  JTT provides Java-based infrastructure software that is used for by the CRM products for HTML and Java.

The fourth update to JTT for CRM products in Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 is now available:

• JTT Release 121RUP4 Patchset R12.JTT.B.delta.4 (Patch 23231676)

What's new in this release?

This is a cumulative Release Update Pack that includes all patches released after EBS 12.1.3. It also includes security-related fixes included in all Critical Patch Updates released for EBS 12.1.3.

This patchset includes forx for the The fixes included in this patch are for the following critical issues along with security fixes:

• Performance issues in few Pages of iStore Application
• Custom Look and Feel is not inherited in iSupport Application
• Date validation with value set FND_STANDARD_DATE failed while retrieving the value
• ‘jtf_region_pub’ procedure returns ‘No Data Found’ exception while displaying custom JSPs
• Customization for Oracle Corporate Branding Image does not work at Application level
• Forms not getting launched from Navigator Slideout Menu, in JTF application
• Claim Line Detail page throwing Null pointer exception when line is opened in Trade Management application
  
• CRM Foundation Pages rendering issues in IE 11 browser
• Home Hyperlink renders twice in Marketing Application
• Null pointer exception rendered on random navigation in  iStore Application
• Improper page displayed on Complex MRO application on clicking operations key flexfield segment
  
• ServletException rendered on few CRM Foundation pages

Prerequisites 

This update requires that Oracle Applications Technology 12.1.3 Product Family Release Update Pack.  You do not need to apply the suite-wide E-Business Suite 12.1.3 update. For other prerequisites and installation instructions, see:

• Oracle CRM Technology Foundation (JTT) Release Notes For Release 12.1 RUP4 Patchset (R12.JTT.B.DELTA.4) (Doc ID 2179284.1)

Related Articles

• New OA Framework 12.1 Release Update Pack 5 Now Available
  

While implementing an Oracle Process Cloud Service PoC we had the requirement to allow users to start an instance using a form in their custom mobile application and also using the workspace.

We have a 'Form Start Event' so users can start the instance thought the workspace. We also added a 'Message Start Event' in order to publish it as a web service.

Having that process deployed, if we head to 'Deployed Applications' in workspace main page.

And click on the button in 'Actions' column.

We can see the web services exposed.

If we use that wsdl url in soapui we see that we have 2 operations, one for each of the start events.

Executing both, we can see that even using 'Form Start Event' we can start a process instance remotely as an operation is automatically created in the web service, so we can remove the 'Message Start Event' as we can meet both requirements just using the 'Form Start Event'. Read the complete article here.

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I attended Luciad User Conference 2016 in Brussels over the past days.

I attended to represent Oracle JET, Oracle's new JavaScript platform, used throughout Oracle and beyond as the basis of enterprise JavaScript frontends, solving a range of complex problems out of the box, while providing a range of components such as graphs and charts. And all for free.

I attended together with my colleague Hans Viehmann, from Oracle Spatial and Graph, who did a session on Oracle DB, as well as Oracle's graph database features, in combination with 3DCityDB and Luciad. He included a nice slide about Oracle JET:

Furthermore, the Luciad team have been doing experiments with Luciad map components in combination with Oracle JET. They also had a very impressive demonstration, which also includes a range of Oracle JET components:

It was a really interesting conference, hopefully I'll get to go to it again in future, many interesting new people and the social events were great. Many thanks to the organizers of this event!

More on Luciad and Oracle JET:

https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/entry/getting_started_integrating_luciadria_into

With the release of NetBeans IDE 8.2, here are my favorite features!

1. The Release Itself. It's always great to have a new release, a fresh start, new development environment, and to me a new release always feels faster and snappier than the last. Maybe because I simply hope this is the case or maybe because it simply is true. Well, with bunches of bugs fixed, and performance standards to comply with, a new NetBeans release should at least be as performant as the previous, and with the bugs fixed and so on, could justifiably be presumed to work even smoother and snappier than the previous release. So far, to me, it does feel even smoother and snappier than before.
   
   
2. Multiple Cursor Support. I don't know how often I'm going to need to have multiple cursors, I can't imagine needing more than two at the same time. Still, great to have them, it certainly makes NetBeans even more fun and versatile, and, at the same time, this was one of the top P1 issues in NetBeans that users have been asking for for many years (and some even abandoned NetBeans specifically because of lack of multiple cursor support). So, hurray!
   
   
3. Oracle JET Features. No more need to install a plugin to use Oracle JET. For the first time, Oracle JET is now a full feature of NetBeans IDE. The project templates, especially, "Quick Start Basic", and the code completion for Oracle JET components, are very helpful and it's great to not have to do anything special to get these features.
   
   
4. Bling Bling. OK, so I'm not a heavy Docker user, nor do I use ECMAScript 6 (and even experimental ECMAScript 7) features right now. Still, though, it's great to have the latest cutting edgiest things, which really is just mostly bling bling for me, though nice to have available as needed when needed. :-)
   
   
5. Darcula. I love the Darcula plugin and I use it all the time. While it's not available in the Plugin Manager right now, yet, for NetBeans IDE 8.2, you can go to the NetBeans Plugin Portal and just download the 8.1 version and it will work fine in 8.2: http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/62424/darcula-laf-for-netbeans. Not all the NetBeans IDE 8.1 plugins will work as simply as this, though some will, just give it a try.
   

Other features and complete list are here: https://netbeans.org/community/releases/82/.

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Oracle OpenWorld 2016 hosted approximately 60,000 in-person attendees and over 2 million online attendees.  For those of you that were able to join us in person, thank you for attending and for your feedback and questions. 

For a limited time, you can access all session presentations here:

• Oracle OpenWorld 2016 Content Catalog. 

You can search the catalog by session ID, session title, speaker name or keyword.

A full listing or Oracle E-Business Suite Applications Technology sessions is available in the Focus On Document (FOD) or our recently published blog article.

Where is the download link?

Once you find a session of interest, you can download the presentation by clicking the "Download Presentation" link.

Note: Many speakers are in the process of uploading their presentations.  Check back later if you don't find a download link.

You can also watch recordings from Oracle E-Business Suite Applications Technology and Product Development Oracle E-Business Suite Learning Stream.  Recordings of the sessions presented at Oracle OpenWorld will be made available soon. Please take advantage of this opportunity to consume the latest information at your convenience.

Thanks again for a great event!

In Oracle BPM it is possible to use Oracle ADF to implement Human Tasks, but in Oracle Process Cloud Service you can only create a form using web forms. Creating a form is an easy task and it offers us to define rules that it gives us a lot of flexibility to achieve complex requirements.
Having this simple form. We can navigate to rules clicking on the marked button.

For each of the elements we have a number of properties or events that we can manage,
For example we can manage form load event, or get if a field value is valid...

To build the rules we have to use JavaScript and we can get code snippets if we click on the button next to each of the properties.

Let's build a couple of rules so you can see how easy it is.
Having this combo with this value.

We can build a rules that populates that combo and also add some kind of value change listener so if its value is "Spain" we can set the country code in Telephone field.
If we have any syntax errors, will be displayed in the bottom of the editor. Read the complete article here.

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Now that NetBeans is in the Apache Incubator, here are some feelings from my side on the process and on where we currently are.

1. Philosophically always Apache. I've been involved with NetBeans since about 2004, when I joined Sun Microsystems in Prague. It was always the case that with NetBeans we were trying to do something bigger than serve the interests of a specific commercial entity—NetBeans has always been a platform for innovation and sharing. It's always been free and open source and it has always focused on enabling software developers all over the world to simply get started quickly and easily with Java, primarily, and over the years with other languages and technologies too. While there have been benefits to being tightly coupled to specific commercial interests, that coupling has never been part of the DNA of NetBeans. Philosophically, NetBeans has always been an Apache project and has always behaved in that way, i.e., it's always been primarily about individuals rather than commercial interests.
   
   
2. Continual demands for more open participation. Over the years, there's been a clamoring from the community for the commercial interests behind NetBeans, i.e., Sun Microsystems and then Oracle, to open up the contribution and governance models of NetBeans to enable direct and equal participation, almost as if its users have seen NetBeans as something that always should have been treated by its commercial sponsor like an Apache project all along. The contribution and governance models have been opaque, to say the least, and it's always been the commercial sponsor (i.e., Sun and later Oracle) that has driven the NetBeans roadmap—and in the cases where community interaction on roadmap etc was slightly opened up, for specific releases, it was always the commercial sponsor that made the decision to enable that to happen. However, amazingly, despite all that, NetBeans has built up a very active and enthusiastic community all over the world, with mailing lists, forums, an advocacy group (NetBeans Dream Team), monthly NetBeans events around the world, broad usage across the industry, high usage in education, etc. In NetBeans, its users have always seen a range of high quality free tools and technologies, and an inspiring philosophy of sharing and innovation, beyond those that the commercial sponsor has found it important to promote.
   
   
3. Shared leadership, shared responsibility. Oracle's interests are broad and diverse. Within its specific scope of interest, it is not a tool provider. Nevertheless, Oracle has a range of investments in a variety of different tools, all at the same time. That makes perfect sense, when you examine each instance of that. In some cases, the investments are historical and in others strategic. Together with that, consider how the community has changed over the years and how much stronger and cohesive open source has become. Would it not make sense to share the leadership of projects across multiple entities rather than having it locked into one specific commercial sponsor? And is that train of thought not exactly in line with the clamoring for more involvement and engagement with the community? What better way, then, than to open up the contribution and governance model via the Apache Software Foundation? Everyone who is invested in NetBeans continues to be invested in NetBeans, while its roadmap, governance model, etc, are shared between all those different entities within a model that has proven to work well.

And that's where we are right now. The NetBeans proposal has been accepted and NetBeans is now in the Apache Incubator. Many things need to happen before NetBeans graduates and becomes a Top Level Project. The hurdles to cross have been examined on all sides and none seem unsolvable. There's a long journey ahead (many months at least) at the end of which the philosophy underpinning NetBeans will match the structures used to govern it. Sometimes there are win/win situations in the world and this surely is one of them.

Further reading:

https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/NetBeansProposal

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Dr. Christoph Burandt, Senior Principal Instructor at Oracle University, tells us of his first experiences.He feels he is still working as a database administrator, but with changing tasks.

Read the full article.

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