Oracle E-Business Suite Development & Extensibility Handbook (Oracle Press)

This handbook offers a wide-ranging and detailed look at how you can customise and extend the Oracle development environment to meet your own business requirements.The book starts with a look at the Application Object Library (AOL) and then moves on to topics such as concurrent processing, Forms and Reports, before reaching what for many readers will be main reason for buying the book: Chapter 9, OA Framework, which covers this important subject in the appropriate depth: architecture, basics of development (including JDeveloper), and - perhaps the most crucial part - extension development and deployment. Later chapters describe topics including Workflow and XML Gateway.The only negative point of note is that the book is not fully up to date. Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 is the current version and has been available for some time, but 12.1 is the most recent version covered. However, what's said about 12.1 generally also applies to 12.2, so don't be put off buying the book for this reason.

The book covers most of the questions a forms developer can expect. Good Buy. It also help you to understand how oracle apps can be customized.

I am a freelance consultant and have been working with Oracle e-Business suite for over 18 years. While I already knew a lot of the content of this book, it was still a good buy as it is a very handy reference source and it also contains a few other new bits I needed to know for R12.If you are into extending Oracle e-Business suite in any way, then I would recommend this book. It is not a complete reference (I don't think there will ever be one!) , but if you can get it for £25 or less (I got it for £16!) it is perfect.

What I have liked most about this book is that it gives me a complete overview of the possibilities you can explore when you want to extend and customize Oracle EBS R12. For me being a functional consultant, this is of particular use because it gives me a step ahead when having to talk to my technical counterparts.Next to this, the book also gives me an insight in the extensions I can do myself, without technical help, e.g. create new BI publisher reports. Based upon the clear and simple examples in the book, I immediately got started and created my first report in less than no time!

I am new to EBS Development, Excellent book, covering everything I expected related to E-Business Development and Extensibility. Every topic explained very well.

This book has chapters on the key technological components of the Oracle EBS suite and covers the differences between R11i and R12. Many of these chapters warrant a book in their own right but the authors do well to summarise the main points while keeping the size, and hence cost, of the book within reach. While it is ostensibly aimed at those with (or hoping to have) a development background there is much in the book that would be of use to Oracle Apps DBAs or anyone else who might be involved in supporting or using the product. There are some minor points I would quibble with (eg the authors state that a full table scan should be avoidedfor tables of more than 10 rows whereas I would argue it is more complex than that) but these don't detract from the fact that thisbook will give anyone a solid grounding in the technology behind the EBS product .

I was bought this book by a friend and it is an extemely well written and a very useful reference for anyone working with Oracle E-Business Suite.Trying to understand all the different technology components of Oracle E-Business Suite is extremely difficult as there is almost too many for any one person to learn. This book provides an great overview of some of the key technologies and tools available to extend Oracle for anyone wanting to add to their current skillset. Each section is very well explained, and unlike many technical books you can read it with beginner knowledge and still understand the key concepts. The book is also full with diagrams, screenshots and some step by step examples to try in each section.Due to the number of technologies it attempts to cover, each section is fairly small (30-40 pages) and is thus more of a starting guide than a bible. As such, I wouldn't recommend that if you are a workflow expert that you buy it for its workflow content, but rather that you buy it to improve your knowledge and skills in some other area that you would like to learn.In addition to the book, the websites of the authors are also full of good tips and examples (all free), although I think the book is a better starting point for anyone wishing to learn a new extension tool for the first time.

The guide is immensely helpful and very detailed.

it is helpful in clearing the basics and explains neatly the relation between various components in oracle apps. it is a very good book for a beginner and for an expert as well.

I've been an Oracle Applications technical consultant for over 10 years and during that time I often used Anil's web site [...] as a resource when I ran into new issues. Now with this book, I have a well-organized volume with all that info and more. In every section, I find new nuggets of information and new techniques that I haven't run across before, each with examples so I can readily make use of them in my work.There are a lot of OA extension and customization requirements that just don't come up often enough to stick in your memory. If you're like me you remember that you did something like that before and you think it was for this client or that, but you certainly don't remember the name of your program and finding it can be a chore. Chances are good that whatever that technique is, it is either in this book or something here will be close enough to trigger the memory banks to bring it to the surface.Because everything is explained with examples, this is a great book for someone starting out as a Oracle EBS techie also. I would strongly recommend that anyone doing customizations and extensions, or forms, reports and interface development buy this book. You won't be sorry.

I though I brought a new book. But it doesn't looks like a new one to me.

Having worked in Oracle EBS for over 15 years, this book is a good bridge between release 11 and 12 of EBS. It attempts to cover both versions, while heavily leaning on the new R12 changes and does a good job detailing the differences. The book also covers alot of terrain from architecture of oracle ebs, the application object library (AOL), multi-org (settings), oracle forms, concurrent programs, oracle reports, xml publisher (aka BI Publisher), Orace Application Framework (OAF), how to customize the Look and Feel, Oracle Workflow, Oracle XML Gateway, code migration (using fndload), SOA and SQL Performance tunning.Having taken many training courses from Oracle University, this book covers topics at a high level from those courses, but in each chapter it also provides and example you can perform to give you experience. These example are helpful to understand the concepts, but are by no means detailed enough for you to master it.Overall this book is an excellent supplement to Oracle Training and helps to bridge the gap between R11 and R12 development in Oracle EBS.