Wow! Even before Fusion/ADF tech stack hits the enterprise world, Oracle shared their vision with the new R12.1.1 release. This not only paves the way for future upgrades to Fusion by laying the technical foundation, but also offers many new and enhanced features.
Some of the primary technology (ATG) changes are:
[Refer Doc ID 561580.1 on Metalink Oracle Support for detail documentation]
- ATG: New tech stack now includes Oracle Database 11.1.0.7, JDK6, Application Server(Java) 10.1.3.4, Application Server (Forms/Reports) 10.1.2.3 etc.
- ATG_CONFIG: Various enhancements to AutoConfig tool like Search utility, Inventory Validation report etc and enhanced support for DMZ, load balancing etc
- OAF: Record History- OAF now allows viewing WHO columns information
- OAF: BI Publisher(erstwhile XML Publisher) Integration - A personalisable "Print" button for OAF pages.
- OAF: Flexfield References enhanced support- Now, R12.1 gives similar functionality as Forms UI for referencing other fields as part of flexfields.
- OAF: Bulk Attachments- Bulk upload and web services/API support for document attachments.
- OAF: Middle tier Data sorting - Now supports sorting of table data in middle tier instead of database in order to improve performance
- AOL: FNDLOAD now supports BLOB data
- SOA: New functionality supporting SOA components for easier integration/monitoring.
- Diagnostics Framework: Many functionality changes to Oracle Diagnostics. It’s a free-of-cost license product and useful for technical resources.
- SES: Full text search capability on Oracle EBS data (both structures and unstructured) with many enhancements which includes Work Flow notifications, Business Objects etc
- UMX: Who, What, Why, How (W3H) questions are now answered with 360 degree view of the Security system
