Integrate Oracle Application

Express (APEX) with the Oracle

E-Business Suite.

Joshua Bryant
Application Architect
bryant.j@mellon.com

Agenda

Description of Application Express

Tips for installing APEX with EBS
Integration with E-Business Suite
Authentication and Authorization with EBS
Screenshots of Mellon APEX application

Description of APEX
Rapidly develop and deploy Web applications
Build reports, forms and charts
Hosted within the Oracle Database. APEX is included with your
database license.
APEX release 2.2.1 requires Oracle Application Server as the web
server. Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (XE) includes Oracle
APEX release 2.1and does not require OAS.
Standard with 10g. Install script for 9.2 and above (20 minutes to
run).
Free hosted environment at apex.oracle.com
Application Express Forum is an excellent resource.

Screenshot of APEX homepage

Installation
APEX is included with 10g database.
For 9.2 and above, download apex_2.2.1.zip from Oracle
Technology Network. Follow instructions for install.
Call coreins.sql from sqlplus to install all database objects (~20
minutes).
Copy images directory into $IAS_ORACLE_HOME/Apache
Add a new DAD entry to
$IAS_ORACLE_HOME/Apache/modplsql/cfg/wdbsvr.app
Add new alias and types to
$IAS_ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/conf/httpd.conf

Installation Tips
Dad entry in wdbsvr.app:
# Begin customizations
[DAD_apex]
connect_string = hostname:db_port:SID
password = apex
username = apex_public_user
default_page = apex
document_table = wwv_flow_file_objects$
document_path = docs
document_proc = wwv_flow_file_mgr.process_download
reuse = Yes
enablesso = No
stateful = STATELESS_RESET
nls_lang = American_America.US7ASCII
custom_auth = Basic
# End customizations

Connect to http://hostname/pls/apex

Installation Tips
If you receive the error Authorization Required at login:
Comment out the custom_auth=CUSTOM variable in wdbsvr.app OR
Confirm that DAD_APEX includes custom_auth = Basic in wdbsvr.app

Add the following to the httpd.conf file:

# Begin customizations
Alias /i/ "/fiprdafs/fiprd1ora/iAS/Apache/images/"
AddType text/xml xbl
AddType text/x-component htc
# End customizations

The Alias points to the APEX images directory you must copy into your
$IAS_ORACLE_HOME/Apache path
The AddType allows you to edit sql scripts with APEX inside the browser

Best Practices for integrating APEX

Create a custom E-Business Suite
application (separate schema)
Tables, Views, Sequences and Triggers go into
custom schema
Grants, Synonyms, and PL/SQL go into APPS
schema

Setup APEX workspace to parse the APPS

schema so that APEX can see all the EBS
objects

Integration with E-Business Suite

You may wish to rapidly develop forms and
reports on request. We have developed
APEX applications for the following:

Mapping data from an interface or conversion

Reassign approvers for workflow notification
Report of all invoices over 30,000 in source currency.
Enhancement requests

Mapping Application

Popup lists created from Legal Entities maintained in EBS

Referencing List of Values

select
apex_item.hidden(1,id) ||
apex_item.checkbox(2,id) ||
apex_item.hidden(6,CREATED_BY) ||
apex_item.hidden(7,LAST_UPDATED_BY) ||
apex_item.hidden(8,wwv_flow_item.md5(EFS_LEGAL_ENTITY,SET_OF_BOOKS_NAME))
remove,
apex_item.popup_from_lov(3,EFS_LEGAL_ENTITY,'MELLONLE',3,5) EFS_LEGAL_ENTITY,
apex_item.select_list_from_query(4,SET_OF_BOOKS_NAME,'SELECT NAME FROM
GL_SETS_OF_BOOKS WHERE NAME NOT LIKE ''%CONSOL%''',null,'NO')
SET_OF_BOOKS_NAME,
APEX_ITEM.DISPLAY_AND_SAVE(9,DESCRIPTION) LE_DESCRIPTION
from (SELECT FILS.*, FFVV.DESCRIPTION
FROM FI_GL_APEXV_LE_TO_SOB FILS, FND_FLEX_VALUES_VL FFVV
where FFVV.FLEX_VALUE(+) = FILS.EFS_LEGAL_ENTITY
and FFVV.FLEX_VALUE_SET_ID(+) = 1008547
and (UPPER(FILS.EFS_LEGAL_ENTITY) like UPPER('%'||NVL(:SEARCH_LE,'%')||'%')
or ','||REPLACE(:SEARCH_LE,':',',')||',' like '%,'||FILS.EFS_LEGAL_ENTITY||',%')
order by FILS.EFS_LEGAL_ENTITY)

Access Control

Authenticating against EBusiness Suite

Login process calls built-in procedure

Q&A