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user exit

In earlier releases of Oracle Reports, user exits provided a way in which to pass control (and possibly arguments) from Oracle Reports to another Oracle product or 3GL, and then return control (and possibly arguments) back to Oracle Reports.

With Oracle Reports 10g, you can call Java methods using the ORA_JAVA built-in package and the Java Importer.   This reduces the need to have user exits in a report and allows for a more open and portable deployment.   You may also use the ORA_FFI built-in package, which provides a foreign function interface for invoking C functions in a dynamic library.   With the availability of these new built-in packages, the use of user exits is deprecated in Oracle Reports 10g, though makefiles will still be supplied to permit you to continue to work with existing user exits.