BPEL Technology: A tool for Apps-to-Apps integration, using Oracle EBS Financials and Oracle’s Retail Industry Solution

Listen to Jeff Wexler, Senior Director of Oracle’s Retail Industry Strategy and Amlan Debnath, VP of Oracle’s Server Technologies speak with Cliff about their recent experience using Oracle’s Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) to support integration between Oracle E-Business Suite Financials and Oracle’s Retail Merchandising Industry Solution and find out how to get more info [...]

We’ll Be at Chirp

Not long ago, Twitter announced its inaugural developer conference, whimsically called Chirp, would be held April 14 and 15, 2010 in San Francisco.
It may or may not be coincidental that the dates are one week earlier than Facebook’s annual f8 developer conference.
Anyway, Chirp looks to be an outstanding opportunity to learn more about Twitter, the [...]

What really happens when you navigate to a URL

As a software developer, you certainly have a high-level picture of how web apps work and what kinds of technologies are involved: the browser, HTTP, HTML, web server, request handlers, and so on.
In this article, we will take a deeper look at the sequence of events that take place when you visit a URL.
Read full [...]

EBS 11i Certified on Windows Itanium (2003) and 10gR2 10.2.0.4 Database

Our Applications Platforms Group has certified Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i 11.5.10.2 with the 10gR2 10.2.0.4 Database on Microsoft Windows Itanium (2003).
This is a split configuration (or database tier-only) certification.  The application tier must be on a fully-certified Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i platform.
References

My Oracle Support Certification Information
-> Oracle [...]

Year In Review: Top EBS Techstack Developments of 2009

What’s new, you ask?  That’s always a tough question to answer succinctly.  2009 was an exceptionally busy year for us in E-Business Suite Development.  In the spirit of the inestimable Harper’s Weekly Review, here’s a summary of the most-important developments and news for Apps architects and system administrators this year.
E-Business Suite releases:  With Premier Support [...]

Year In Review: Top EBS Techstack Developments of 2009

What’s new, you ask?  That’s always a tough question to answer succinctly.  2009 was an exceptionally busy year for us in E-Business Suite Development.  In the spirit of the inestimable Harper’s Weekly Review, here’s a summary of the most-important developments and news for Apps architects and system administrators this year.
E-Business Suite releases:  With Premier Support [...]

Microsoft Windows 7 Certified with Oracle E-Business Suite

[Dec 18, 2009 Update: corrected formatting error in "EBS 12.0 Prerequisites" section; added more information about 64-bit clients]
I’m very pleased to announce that Microsoft Windows 7 desktop clients
are certified for the Oracle E-Business Suite.  Both Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and Mozilla Firefox 3.5 are certified and supported on Windows 7 desktop clients. 
The prerequisites and [...]

Foursquare Launches an API

If you’ve been reading here lately, you’ll know we have a crush on foursquare for a number of reasons: it’s fun and engaging to play, it’s a new shiny object, it applies game mechanics to solve a problem, etc.
On Monday, they officially announced their API.
I had heard around the way that there was a buggy [...]

Foursquare Launches an API

If you’ve been reading here lately, you’ll know we have a crush on foursquare for a number of reasons: it’s fun and engaging to play, it’s a new shiny object, it applies game mechanics to solve a problem, etc.
On Monday, they officially announced their API.
I had heard around the way that there was a buggy [...]

I Don’t Care What You Say, Foursquare Rules

I’ve been playing foursquare regularly for about a month now, and even though I was teased by several people (you know who you are) at OpenWorld last week, I’ll continue to play.
/me thumbs nose
If you’re not familiar, foursquare debuted at SXSW this Spring, and it’s currently the latest shiny object of the early adopter crowd. If [...]