Web-based content in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 runs on the Oracle Application Framework (also known as OA Framework, OAF, or FWK) user interface libraries and infrastructure. Since the initial release of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 in 2013, we have released a number of cumulative updates to Oracle Application Framework to fix performance, security, and stability issues.

These updates are provided in cumulative Release Update Packs, and cumulative Bundle Patches that can be applied on top of the Release Update Packs. In this context, cumulative means that the latest RUP or Bundle Patch contains everything released earlier.

The latest OAF update for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2.5 is now available:

• Oracle Application Framework (FWK) Release 12.2.5+ Bundle 10 (Patch 25264693:R12.FWK.C)

Where is this update documented?

Instructions for installing this OAF Release Update Pack are in the following My Oracle Support knowledge document:

• Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 Upgrade Considerations for OA Framework-based Applications (Doc ID 1927975.1)

Who should apply this patch?

All Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2.5 users should apply this patch.  Future OAF patches for EBS Release 12.2.5 will require this patch as a prerequisite. 

What's new in this update?

This bundle patch is cumulative: it includes all fixes released in previous EBS Release 12.2.5 bundle patches.

This latest bundle patch includes fixes for following bugs/issues:

• 22590683 - FORWARD-PORT 21465867 TO 12.2.5
• 24391264 - 12.2.X : ICONS NOT ALIGNED WITH FUNC NAME IN OLD HOMEPAGE IN CHROME/FIREFOX
• 24398948 - CUSTOMER NAME MISALIGNED
• 25056504 - NEED  IMPORTPERZDOCCO.JAVA VERSION .3 BACKPORTED TO BUNDLE 8
  

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• Which JDeveloper Version Works With Your EBS Release?
• Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.5 Now Available
  
• New User Interface Features in Release 12.2.4
• New OA Framework 12.2.5 Update 4 Now Available
• New OA Framework 12.2.5 Update 5 Now Available
• New OA Framework 12.2.5 Update 6 Now Available
• New OA Framework 12.2.5 Update 7 Now Available
• New OA Framework 12.2.5 Update 8 Now Available
• New OA Framework 12.2.5 Update 9 Now Available
  

Introduction

This article summarizes our selection of the Oracle Cloud Platform Services (PaaS) with specific focus on use with an existing Oracle Cloud Applications (SaaS) environment. In other content the term PaaS4SaaS has been used for this context.

This is the first of a series of articles in which we will use examples to demonstrate some of the key functions and features inside the Oracle PaaS services, and indeed many will be derived from real implementations. Again the focus is on getting value for use with an existing Oracle Fusion Cloud (SaaS) environment, as opposed to a general feature overview.

Clearly all services evolve of time, and as such the information provided is accurate at the time of writing, and where possible links to updated content will be provided.

Use-Cases

In order to organize this series of articles, and at the same time portray the most-common use of each of the services, we've selected the following four broad categories within which to place each of the PaaS service offerings.

• Build custom extension applications
• Host your existing extension applications
• Integrate your existing custom and packaged applications
• Enhance your solution by adding ready-to-go features.

Obviously there may be some overlap between categories with some services. The following table shows how the PaaS Services which are mostly likely to complement a SaaS environment fit into the categories above. Read the complete article here.

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Join the growing number of people taking advantage of Docker to optimize deployment processes. Use Docker to get your build process using the latest version of the Oracle Linux image hosted on the Docker Hub.

Linux administrators adopting Oracle Linux 7 can also learn about Docker images, the Docker Hub, and installing and using Docker by taking the Oracle Linux 7: What's New for Administrators course.

You can take this course as a:

• Live-Virtual Event: Attend a live event from your own desk so avoiding travel costs. Events are added to the schedule to suit different time-zones. Events currently on the schedule include 26 April and 31 May 2017.
  
• In-Class Event: Travel to an education center to take this course. In-class events on the schedule include:

Resources:

• Register for an event or learn more about the Oracle Linux curriculum at http://oracle.com/education/linux
• Oracle Linux Documentation
  
• Updated Docker Images for Oracle Linux
• Oracle Container Registry - https://container-registry.oracle.com/
  

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This article is a sequel to EBS on Oracle Cloud Terminology - Part I. The last article introduced the tools employed in the new and improved automation that was released in early March. In contrast, this article focuses on the specific capabilities of the tools.

These terms are used throughout our Oracle by Example tutorials, and will also be employed in communications such as future blog articles.

For a full list of terms, refer to "Section 10: Glossary" in Getting Started with Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud (Doc ID 2066260.1).

Provisioning - The process of creating an Oracle E-Business Suite environment in the cloud. The EBS Cloud Admin Tool (defined in the Part I article) can be used to:

• Provision new enviroments from binaries in the EBS Public Cloud Container
• Provision cloned environments from backups of existing environments

Backup - A copy of your Oracle E-Business Suite environment to a specified storage area or device. A valid Oracle E-Business Suite backup consists of a point-in-time copy of the application and database tier binaries and data. The backup storage can be located on-premises or on Oracle Cloud. Backup storage options on Oracle Cloud can be either Oracle Compute Cloud Service account storage or the Oracle Storage Cloud Service.

Restoring - The process of copying a backup from a designated storage area or device to return the environment to its state at the point the backup was taken.

Cloning - The process of copying and configuring an Oracle E-Business Suite environment (source) to another Oracle E-Business Suite environment (target). The target environment of a cloning operation is a modified copy of the source environment. The copy can be either a backup or a snapshot of the current running environment, or a backup or a snapshot taken at a previous point in time. The source environment and/or the target environment can be on-premises or on Oracle Cloud. The target environment after the copy and reconfiguration is called a clone.

Lift and Shift - The process of using backup and cloning utilities to move an existing Oracle E-Business Suite installation from on-premises to Oracle Cloud, whereby the on-premises environment is shut down and the cloud environment becomes the permanent version.

References 

• Getting Started with Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud (Doc ID 2066260.1)
• Oracle by Example Tutorials

A common use case for applications that have multiple pages is passing values between pages. For example you might want to pick up a specific record or value in one page and then use that as a parameter for a query in another page.

In the February release or Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service as part of the extension hook points that we provide, we added support for shared resources. These are JavaScript libraries you can add to your application - and that can be used across your app.

In the demo below I show you how you can use the built-in sample template for a shared resource to define a variable, and then how that variable is exposed in various places in the product through the expression builder allowing you to set its value in one page and use that value in another one.

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Oracle Fusion Middleware products get new Patch Set updates.  When a new Patch Set has been released, a 12 month Grace Period for the previous Patch Set begins.  Once that Grace Period ends, no new patches for the previous Patch Set will be released.

For more details, see:

• Error Correction Support Dates for Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g (11.1.1/11.1.2) (Doc ID 1290894.1)

Oracle Internet Directory is part of a suite of products called "Oracle Identity and Access Management" (IAM).  OID 11.1.1.7 was released in April 2013 .  OID 11.1.1.9 was released in May 2015, which means that the Grace Period for OID 11.1.1.7 ended after May 2016. 

All E-Business Suite users running OID 11.1.1.7 should upgrade to OID 11.1.1.9 to remain under Error Correction Support. OID 11.1.1.x is covered by Premier Support to December 2018, and covered by Extended Support to December 2021.

Related Articles

• Oracle Internet Directory 11gR1 11.1.1.9 Certified with E-Business Suite
  

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Vagrant is a tool to manage virtual machine-based environments. Read more about Vagrant here. Why use Vagrant? If you develop code that runs on Linux but use a MacOS or Windows machine to run your preferred browser, editor, debugger or development tools, Vagrant offers a consistent workflow to create disposable Linux environment whose configuration and dependencies are isolated from your development machine.

Vagrant Boxes are pre-built base images that can be imported into Vagrant as a starting point. We’ve packaged Oracle Linux 7.3 in a Vagrant box. To use this ready-to-go package, you must have Oracle VM VirtualBox and Vagrant installed. If you don't, you can download those here: 

• VirtualBox
• Vagrant

Once you have these installed, you can download and launch the Oracle Linux box using the following commands:

# mkdir ol73; cd ol73
# vagrant box add --name ol73 http://yum.oracle.com/boxes/oraclelinux/ol73/ol73.box
# vagrant init ol73
# vagrant up
# vagrant ssh

After this, you'll be logged in to your Oracle Linux environment and you're ready to go. The working directory you created above, ol73, will be mounted in the virtual machine as a shared folder on /vagrant so you can use an editor or development tool on your host system to edit code and other files while accessing, compiling and running those files from within the Oracle Linux guest VM. 

Once you no longer need the box, you can get rid of it:

# vagrant destroy

Oracle has implemented a number of strategies to curb cheating and protect the value of certification. However, cheating is a big business and it is difficult to police all outlets. While we continue to explore new security measures, there are things that you can do, as a legitimate certification holder to help protect the value of your certification from cheaters. 

1. Strongly discourage the sharing of content among candidates. Don't post test content in forums, upload items to dumps or help others using real content.
2. Don't point people to brain dumps or even encourage them. Don't support illegal content thieves, distributors, and seekers. Let them fend for themselves. Avoid any actions that enable a short-cutter to circumvent the real process of actually getting certified.
3. Become an evangelist - tell both your success and horror stories. Share with people how following the correct process has paid off in your career and in your life. Share examples of where you seen or heard of people who have been burned by cutting corners and cheating.
4. Report specific instances of cheating and fraud to Oracle. Using Oracle's fraud reporting email address, you can report instances of fraud and cheating to the Oracle Certification Program. Don't worry - your submission is anonymous. We investigate these reports vigorously and take action wherever legally possible. 

Learn about The High Cost of Cheating to you, your peers and your current or future employer in last week's post. 

This list was originally shared in the Oracle Certification Blog post Cheating Part 7: What Can You and I Do About Cheating? that was posted in December 2009.

In Oracle Property Manager, proration rule setup plays a very important role while calculating the rent amount for a lease which is staring / ending in the middle of the period. Based on the proration rule, system divides the monthly / annual rent to derive the daily rent amount and based on that the rent amount for fraction period will be arrived.

Here is an example of how the lease amount is calculated with different proration rules, when the lease is started in the middle of the period.

Let’s assume a lease has a monthly rent of 10,000 and payment term start date is 15th Sep. Then the Sep rent amount will be

For more details on the proration rule functionality, how it impacts the lease rent calculation etc  refer Property Manager user's guide.

Listen up Oracle Cloud UX Rapid Development Kit (RDK) and PaaS4SaaS fans!

Available now, the Cloud UX RDK offers a headless mode switch for the AppsCloudUIKit Oracle ADF page templates. The mode turns off the Unified Global Header you’ll be familiar with from SaaS.

The headless mode is invoked by passing the headless=yes parameter in the endpoint URL for application. For example:

This is a reusable solution for cases where pages are embedded inside SaaS and make call outs to PaaS, so it’s ideal for your custom simplified UI solutions. Read the complete article here.

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·SOA Suite 12c: Startup and ShutdownThe complete 3rd chapter from Oracle SOA Suite 12c Administrator's Guide (2015, Packt Publishing), written by Arun Pareek, Oracle ACE Ahmed Aboulnaga, and Oracle ACE Associate Harold Dost. Read the chapter.

·Oracle API Management Implementation Case StudyThe entire 2nd chapter from Oracle API Management 12c Implementation (2015, Packt Publishing), written by Oracle ACE Director Luis Weir, Oracle ACE Rolando Carraso, Oracle ACE Arturo Viveros, and Andrew Bell. Read the chapter.

·Adaptive Case ManagementThe complete 9th chapter from Design Principles for Process-driven Architectures Using Oracle BPM and SOA Suite 12c (2015, Packt Publishing), written by Oracle ACE Directors Matjaz B. Juric, Danilo Schmeidel, Torsten Winterberg, Guido Schmutz, Hajo Normann, and Mark Simpson and Oracle ACE Sven Bernhardt. Read the chapter.

·OTN Tech Summit Middleware Video ReplaysAll six sessions from the middleware track in the Spring 2016 edition of the OTN Virtual Technology Summit are available for unlimited on-demand replay in the Replay Library. There are three sessions each covering the Internet of Things and WebLogic 12c/Java EE sub-tracks. Watch the videos.

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Oracle University has a wealth of free webcasts for Oracle E-Business Suite.  If you're looking for a primer on how to build your own mobile apps for EBS, see:

• Build, Deploy and Manage Smartphone Applications for Oracle E-Business Suite (64 minutes)

Vijay Shanmugam, Director Product Development, explains the technologies and approach used to build Oracle's smartphone applications for Oracle E-Business Suite. You will learn how to deploy and manage iOS and Android mobile applications from application stores, how to use enterprise deployment to distribute controlled versions of the mobile applications within your organization and how to use a combination of Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Foundation, Oracle E-Business Suite REST services and Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF) to develop custom smartphone applications for Oracle E-Business Suite to meet your needs. This material was presented at Oracle OpenWorld 2016.

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Mozilla offers an Extended Support Release based on an official release of Firefox for organizations that are unable to mass-deploy new consumer-oriented versions of Firefox every six weeks.  From the Mozilla ESR FAQ:

What does the Mozilla Firefox ESR life cycle look like?

Releases will be maintained for approximately one year, with point releases containing security updates coinciding with regular Firefox releases. The ESR will also have a two cycle (12 week) overlap between the time of a new release and the end-of-life of the previous release to permit testing and certification prior to deploying a new version.

Maintenance of each ESR, through point releases, is limited to high-risk/high-impact security vulnerabilities and in rare cases may also include off-schedule releases that address live security vulnerabilities. Backports of any functional enhancements and/or stability fixes are not in scope.

At the end of the support period for an ESR version:

• the release will reach its end-of-life
• no further updates will be offered for that version
• an update to the next version will be offered through the application update service

E-Business Suite to be certified with Firefox Extended Support Releases Only

New personal versions of Firefox on the Rapid Release channel are released roughly every six weeks.  It is impractical for us to certify these new personal Rapid Release versions of Firefox with the Oracle E-Business Suite because a given Firefox release is generally obsolete by the time we complete the certification.

From Firefox 10 and onwards, Oracle E-Business Suite is certified only with selected Firefox Extended Support Release versions. Oracle has no current plans to certify new Firefox personal releases on the Rapid Release channel with the E-Business Suite.

Plug-in Support removed in Firefox Rapid Release 52

Mozilla has removed plug-in support in Firefox Rapid Release 52.  This means that the Rapid Release version of Firefox cannot run Forms-based content in EBS. 

Firefox Extended Support Release continues to offer plug-in support.  End-users who need to use Forms-based content in EBS must run the Firefox Extended Support Release. 

Will EBS offer an alternative to plug-ins?

Yes. We are working on an update to EBS that allows Forms-based content to run in browsers that do not have plug-in support.  See:

• E-Business Suite and Java Web Start: Frequently-Asked Questions

When will the new Java Web Start alternative be released?

Oracle's Revenue Recognition rules prohibit us from discussing certification and release dates, but you're welcome to monitor or subscribe to this blog. I'll post updates here as soon as soon as they're available.   

Mozilla stresses their goal of ensuring that Firefox personal versions will continue to offer the same level of application compatibility as Firefox Extended Support Releases. 

Oracle E-Business Suite Development will issue new E-Business Suite patches or workarounds that can be reproduced with Firefox Extended Support Releases.  If you report compatibility issues with Firefox personal releases that cannot be reproduced with Firefox Extended Support Releases, your options are:

1. Deploy a certified Firefox Extended Support Release version instead of the Firefox personal version
2. Report the incompatibility between Firefox ESR and Firefox personal to Mozilla
3. Use Internet Explorer (on Windows) or Safari (on Mac OS X) until Mozilla resolves the issue

Mozilla may release new updates to Firefox ESR versions to address high-risk/high-impact security issues.  These updates are considered to be certified with the E-Business Suite on the day that they're released.  You do not need to wait for a certification from Oracle before deploying these new Firefox ESR security updates.

• Windows 10 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows 8.1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows 7 SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)

References

• Recommended Browsers for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (Note 389422.1)
• Deploying Sun JRE (Native Plug-in) with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (Note 393931.1)
  

Related Articles

• Do E-Business Suite Users Need to Worry About Java 9?

Recently, we've discussed Oracle Code in our blog posts, but today we wanted to give special attention to several sessions related to "Mobile" at upcoming Oracle Code events.  As you may know, Oracle Code is a series of free conferences being held in 20 cities across the globe where developers can learn about the latest technologies, practices and trends in Cloud Development.  Through a series of keynotes, technical sessions, hands-on labs, workshops, and demos, developers will be able to learn from both experts and peers about everything from containers and the latest development tools to AI and chatbots.  These Code events should not be missed, and if you are on the US East Coast and are interested in mobile development, you'll want to make sure to attend these sessions below:

New York -- March 21st

The Rise of Chatbots in Enterprise Mobile Application Development

Convene Rockefeller Center - Forum 2; 4:05pm-4:50pm; Frank Nimphius -- Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle

In many science fiction movies, such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, War Games, and any of the Star Trek movies, artificial intelligence is used to enable man-to-machine conversation.  Yet today, in the real world, conversational interfaces are becoming science reality in mobile computing, and are ready to be the next big thing in consumer and enterprise mobile application development.  Paired with artificial intelligence, chatbots help to simplify the mobile communication between users and services. Like in human conversation, well chosen wordings directed at these bots will allow users to book a table in a restaurant, arrange a taxi pickup to the airport, and buy an airline ticket, among many other things. An entry level presentation, this conference session will explore chatbots from a business perspective and will focus on the positioning, use cases, and possibilities that chatbots will create for developers.

Washington DC -- March 27th

How to Get Actionable Insights from Mobile Apps and Chatbots

Washington Mariott at Metro Center - Junior Ballroom 1; 2:50pm-3:35pm; Joe Huang -- Product Manager, Oracle

Have you ever wondered how your mobile app is being adopted by end users? Do you ever want to gather business intelligence data from the way your user use mobile apps? What about the accuracy of your chatbot in understanding what your end user actually asked for? In this conference session, explore how to glean critical business insights and user adoption information from mobile applications and chatbot clients. Then discover how you can turn these insights into actions in order to better engage end users and remedy any issues you observed through analytics data.

The Rise of Chatbots in Enterprise Mobile Application Development

Washington Marriott at Metro Center - Salon A/B; 5pm-5:45pm; Joe Huang -- Product Manager, Oracle

A reprise of the session that was presented in New York on March 21st.

Not able to attend either of these Oracle Code events?  We have additional events coming up in Toronto (April 18th), London (April 20th), Berlin (April 24th), Prague (April 28th), New Delhi (May 10th), and many other cities!  Find an event that works for you and register today!

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