Extending Oracle Applications with OA Framework - Part 1

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Course Overview

Oracle continues to migrate more and more of its screens to the OA Framework technology, and understanding how to customize these web pages is essential to making the E-Business Suite conform to your business requirements. This course teaches students how to extend the OA Framework based pages in the Oracle E-Business Suite. Students will learn the key concepts about the OA Framework technology stack, will see many examples of various types of OA Framework customizations, and will have an opportunity for hands on exercises where they will build their own extensions. The course will also include a brief overview of Personalizations, along with an understanding of when to use personalizations instead of extensions. Many of the examples in the course will be derived from real world examples of OA Framework Extensions.

Course Goals

• To understand the fundamentals of the Model-View-Controller design and how OA Framework extensions fit into that design
• To learn how to create several different types of commonly used OA Framework extensions using JDeveloper
• To gain an understanding of the difference between OA Framework personalization and OA Framework extension
• To learn how to deploy OA Framework extensions into different E-Business Suite environments
• To obtain hands-on experience through exercises in an instructor-led environment
• To understand the Oracle standards for customizing the OA Framework

Prerequisites

• Some knowledge of java programming would be a plus
• Some familiarity with E-Business Suite system administration

Who Should Attend?

• Application Developers
• Technical Consultants
• Technical Administrators
• Java and J2EE Developers
• Implementation Team Members
• IT Support Staff

Course Materials

• OA Framework Course Notes

Duration

• Three (3) days

Course Outline

• Introduction
  • Overview of OA Framework
  • Overview of Model-View-Controller design
  • Overview of Business Components 4 Java (BC4J)
  • Overview of Web page hierarchy
  • Overview of Pesonalizations vs. Extensions
• Personalizations
  • Key Profile Options
  • How personalizations are stored in database
  • Different levels of personalization
  • What can be done through personalization
  • What can not be done through personalization
  • Personalized Views
  • Examples of personalizations
  • Deploying and migrating personalizations
• JDeveloper
  • How to set up JDeveloper
  • OA Extension features bundled with JDeveloper
  • Debugging features
• Extensions
  • High level steps
  • Most common extensions
• Extension examples:
  • Adding an extra field to a View Object
  • Defaulting a value in an input field
  • Validating the user entry
  • Using SPEL (Simplest Possible Expression Language) to set field properties
  • Using component based function security to set field properties
  • Extending an existing region
  • Embedding a custom region in a page
  • How to display a warning page based on user input
  • Adding a check box to a page
  • Working with descriptive flexfields
  • Customizing LOV's
  • Customizing table displays (classic and advanced)
  • Customizing Search screens
  • Using Partial Page Refresh (PPR)
• Debugging techniques
  • Setting breakpoints
  • Displaying data
  • Displaying debug messages
• How to deploy Extensions
  • Deploying personalizations
  • Deploying files to server
  • Deploying substitution rules
  • Deploying xml pages to database
  • Application Setup for new custom pages
• Oracle standards
  • Naming conventions
  • Coding conventions
  • Upgrade considerations