Oracle E-Business Suite Development & Extensibility Handbook (Oracle Press) 1st Edition

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.

Good coverage material. The examples are fairly basic but will give you a good idea how to start to build things in Oracle HR. Proved useful at work.

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 have been a fan of Anil Passi's web site for well over a year. So I when I saw that he planned to author Development & Extensibility Handbook, I could not wait. And the wait was worth it! It's been the perfect book for me in my support of eBusiness. As a project lead, I support the business principally, but am more involved with the technology and minor development. I have been supporting Oracle for 2 years. This book cleared up some of my confusion with the Oracle 11i architecture. Of the many great features of this book, I really like the discussion of the directory structure you'll find on the server. Finding information on the server had always been 'hit or miss'. This book cleared up that confusion. The book appears to be more geared towards 11.5.10+, rather than 12, although 12 is discussed. I support 11.5.10.2, so it's perfect! I also told one of our managers in Information Systems that this book should be required reading for new department hires. I have found this book series to be high quality and would recommend them generally. Passi's book rises to that bar.This book is very readable and well written.

The books content is valid, and incredibly useful (thank you Anil). However, the Kindle version is a stress to your eyes. It is a combination of actual text (easy to read), and text that is made up of a scanned image (tougher to read). Unfortunately, the scanned image portion feels like a third generation xerox copy. Really distracting - requiring additional effort.Suggestion - sample the book before purchasing it to see if it is something you can live with.

This book, Oracle E-Business Suite Development & Extensibility Handbook, is the best overview of Oracle E-Business Suite that I have ever read. It provides overviews of all the major parts of EBS that a developer would care about. I personally used it as a refresher before I returned to working with E-Business Suite after a two year break from development in it. It also covers the differences between releases 11 and 12 very well with side by side comparisons of such topics as Multi-Org. On top of that, it has several very detailed chapters on OA Framework which include complete detailed examples of creating personalizations and customizations.In summary, I found this book to be filled with accurate, easy to understand information about E-Business Suite Development. I congratulate the author on writing a very good reference book and thank him for his generosity with his knowledge of E-Business Suite Development.

Extremely well written with many relevant examples of both R11 and R12 architecture, administration, configuration and development.The Authors wisely chose to address the most practical aspects of a very wide and sometimes deep product stack.In some areas, there is not a great deal of detail but, the concepts are explained in a manner that Oracle's documentation falls short. Shedding light on basic concepts that are not necessarily intuitive to the reader of Oracle or others documentation. Concept explanations alone are worth the purchase price - but, there is much more.Using this book in concert with Oracle's documentation will get you far. The book itself is likely for intermediate to advanced level - with prior Oracle experience with the DB, Oracle Forms, Reports, EBS functional knowledge and or Java/ADF being very helpful but not absolutely mandatory.I highly recommend this book to any Oracle Professional that needs to come up to speed quickly on R11 or R12.

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

It is not upto the expected mark,it need to update with some more topics then it may be good.thank you for asking feedback

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.