Headstart for Oracle Apps 11i

Oracle Consulting

Oracle Applications have consistently proven to successfully support many businesses

around the globe. But while your organization may actually share many business
processes with other companies, it definitely has unique requirements! To gain
advantage over your competitors, you want to be able to extend the functionality of your
Oracle Applications or add new application modules. Oracle Designer and Headstart
for Oracle Apps enable you to perform these tasks in a flexible and highly productive
way.
Introduction

When you selected Oracle Applications, it was because of their support for
most of your business needs . However, it is likely that over time, youll
need extensions or additional application modules to provide for a 100%
fit. Oracle has the tools and services to deliver this additional level of
flexibility to your standard application software, which in return will offer
substantial added value to your organization. These tools have consistently
proven their high value and quality in our Custom Development practice .
Oracle itself uses these tools to extend Oracle Applications and develop
new functionality that works in seamless conjunction with Oracle
Applications.
The tool set consists of:
Oracle Designer and Oracle Developer
Oracle Application Object Library (AOL)
Headstart for Oracle Apps
Oracle Consulting uses these tools to custom develop the extensions or new
application modules. This approach gives you the following benefits:
Fast delivery because of the highly productive tool set
Fully integrated analysis and design information in a single
repository
Graphical user interface that is fully compliant with Oracle
Applications
Easy to maintain systems that are fully documented, fully
generated, and completely managed from a central repository.

What is Oracle Designer?

Process
Modeler

Entity

Function

Relationship

Hierarchy

Diagram

Diagram

Oracle Designer is Oracles scaleable application development product

suite, that supports the modeling of complex systems using business
process, analysis, and design diagrammers. It also enables you to generate
your application system from these models, through powerful application
generators.

Oracle Designer

Server

Declarative

Model

Module

Design

Design

Preferences

Server

Module

Generator

Oracle Designer empowers your organization to work in concert with

corporate business imperatives. All application constituencies, business
analysts, systems designers, and application developers, derive team
synergy from the shared Oracle Repository complemented by an integrated
suite of business modeling tools, design wizards and application generators.
It enables you to design and deliver accurate and timely enterprise
client/server and web-enabled systems adaptable to your changing business
needs.

Generator

What is the Application Object Library?

The Application Object Library (AOL) is a powerful library with

components of code (objects) used in one or more Oracle Applications. It
determines among others the graphical user interface, navigation, and
messaging of the Oracle Applications. It is shipped with the Oracle
Applications.
Applications

What is Headstart for Oracle Apps?

Object Library

Headstart for Oracle Apps unites the power of both Oracle Designer and
the Application Object Library. Headstart for Oracle Apps lets the powerful
application generators of Oracle Designer use the objects from AOL.

(AOL)

Libraries

Subclassed

Headstart for Oracle Apps, in conjunction with the Application Object

Library, allows the generators to generate application modules that have
the same look and feel as the forms used in Oracle Application. Menus,
messaging, navigation, user interface components and special Oracle
Application features are fully generated by Oracle Designer.

APPS Objects

It is also possible to build applications that interface with the Oracle

Application server model. You can load these models in Oracle Designer.
You can then reference these server model objects, such as views, into your
new modules, which allows you to fully generate that module.
Headstart for Oracle Apps also provides you with a number of utilities that
boost productivity by automating time consuming and error prone tasks.
For more information look at the technical description.

Headstart for Oracle Apps Architecture

Process
Modeler

Entity

Function

Relationship

Hierarchy

Diagram

Diagram

Applications

Headstart for

Oracle Designer
Database Design

Application Design

Transformer

Transformer

Server

Declarative

Model

Module

Design

Design

Object Library

Applications
Attached

(AOL)

Attached
Libraries

Libraries
Template
Form
Preferences

Server
Generator

Module

Subclassed

Subclassed

Object

Subclassed
APPS Objects

Library

Generator

Forms:
100% generated
and compatible with
Oracle Applications

How can Oracle Consulting help you?

When you have decided to extend your Oracle Applications or build new
related application modules, Oracle Consulting is your partner to make it
happen. Our world wide experience running projects with Oracle Designer
is written down in the Custom Development Method (CDM Advantage).
This method is the basis for Oracle consultants to deliver projects with
Oracle Designer.
If you decide to develop these extensions yourself, and your people are
trained in Oracle Designer and AOL, Oracle delivers the five day Headstart
for Oracle Apps Service. The Headstart consultant introduces this package
to your organization, installs the software, transfers knowledge based on
Oracle best practices when using Oracle Designer and performs proof
generation together with your development staff. This approach offers you
a true Headstart when generating extensions on or new application modules
in conjunction with Oracle Applications.
Key Features Headstart for Oracle
Apps - Template Package

The Headstart for Oracle Apps

Template Package allows 95-100
% generation with Oracle Designer
of the following Oracle
Applications features:

Integration with AOL

Navigator
Query Find Windows
Query Find Row-LOV

Integration with AOL

Message Dictionary
Combination Blocks
Non base table blocks
Tabbed Regions
About this record (Who)
Master-Detail coordination
checkbox
Descriptive flexfields
Dep/Mut/Cond items
Forms being called
Multi Row selection

Dynamic setting of window

title
Calendar Window that
allows users to select dates
quickly
CDM RuleFrame support

Apps features generated

Oracle Apps
Look & Feel

Current Record
Indicator
Oracle Apps Menu
and Toolbar

About this
Record Info

Example of a generated screen using Headstart for Oracle Apps 11i.

Key Features Utilities

Headstart supplies two types of

Utilities: productivity boosters and
quality assurance reports.
Productivity Boosters

Productivity boosters automate

tasks previously done manually.
They create and maintain Oracle
Designer objects in the following
areas:
Full support for CDM
RuleFrame with utilities for
transformation and
implementation of Business
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Rules, generation of Custom

APIs, View APIs and
enforcement of sub-type
consistency rules, key constraint
update rules and (soft) domain
rules.
Logical Database Design:
sequences, fast creation of
views, inheriting all properties
of underlying columns.
Data Auditing: change history
columns and journal tables
Physical Database Design:
assignment of tablespaces,
deletion of redundant indexes,
re-sequencing of columns.
Module Design and
Generation: Creation of find
windows, messages
generation
Quality Assurance Reports

The Quality Assurance Reports

verify compliance with the
Standards and Guidelines Library
of CDM Advantage.
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Headstart for Oracle Apps 11i is

part of the Oracle iDevelopment
Accelerators. This suite also
includes CDM Advantage 2.0,
Headstart Oracle Designer 6i,
Oracle Designer Web Assistant
6i and CDM RuleFrame. For
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