Welcome to Release 12.1 of the Oracle Configurator Fusion Configurator Engine Guide.
Important: This document describes only the Fusion Configurator Engine (FCE), which constitutes part of Oracle Configurator functionality. It is essential to read this document in conjunction with other documents in the Oracle Configurator documentation set, as described in this section.
This guide is intended for those who are in the process of planning, designing, building, or deploying configuration models using Oracle Configurator Developer, or have already deployed configuration models in a runtime Oracle Configurator. This document assumes you are experienced with both Oracle Configurator Developer and Oracle Configurator, have attended Oracle Configurator training classes available through Oracle University, and have read the Oracle Configurator Developer User's Guide.
The Oracle Configurator Developer User's Guide contains essential information about building and deploying configuration models using Oracle Configurator Developer. Much of the content in that guide is relevant whether you are building a configuration model for the Original Configurator Engine (OCE) or the Fusion Configurator Engine (FCE). However, all procedures, settings, modeling techniques, runtime behavior, and areas within the Configurator Developer user interface that are specific to the FCE are currently available only in this guide. Therefore, Oracle recommends that you use this guide as a supplement to the latest version of the Oracle Configurator Developer User's Guide.
See Related Information Sources for more Oracle E-Business Suite product information.
To reach Oracle Support Services, use a telecommunications relay service (TRS) to call Oracle Support at 1.800.223.1711. An Oracle Support Services engineer will handle technical issues and provide customer support according to the Oracle service request process. Information about TRS is available at http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/trs.html, and a list of phone numbers is available at http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/dro/trsphonebk.html.
Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible to all users, including users that are disabled. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Accessibility standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For more information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/.
Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.
This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.
This chapter describes at a high level the main features and benefits of the FCE. The remainder of this document describes the various settings that enable you to build FCE Models in Configurator Developer, how to convert existing Models to FCE Models, and the general behavior of FCE Models in a runtime Oracle Configurator.
This chapter describes how to set up configuration attributes for Models that use the Fusion Configurator Engine.
For a full list of documentation resources for Oracle Configurator, see the Oracle Configurator Release Notes for this release.
For a full list of documentation resources for Oracle Applications, see Oracle Applications Documentation Resources, on MetaLink, Oracle's technical support Web site.
Additionally, be sure you are familiar with current release or patch information for Oracle Configurator on MetaLink, Oracle's technical support Web site.
The Oracle Integration Repository is a compilation of information about the service endpoints exposed by the Oracle E-Business Suite of applications. It provides a complete catalog of Oracle E-Business Suite's business service interfaces. The tool lets users easily discover and deploy the appropriate business service interface for integration with any system, application, or business partner.
The Oracle Integration Repository is shipped as part of the E-Business Suite. As your instance is patched, the repository is automatically updated with content appropriate for the precise revisions of interfaces in your environment.
Oracle STRONGLY RECOMMENDS that you never use SQL*Plus, Oracle Data Browser, database triggers, or any other tool to modify Oracle E-Business Suite data unless otherwise instructed.
Oracle provides powerful tools you can use to create, store, change, retrieve, and maintain information in an Oracle database. But if you use Oracle tools such as SQL*Plus to modify Oracle E-Business Suite data, you risk destroying the integrity of your data and you lose the ability to audit changes to your data.
Because Oracle E-Business Suite tables are interrelated, any change you make using an Oracle E-Business Suite form can update many tables at once. But when you modify Oracle E-Business Suite data using anything other than Oracle E-Business Suite, you may change a row in one table without making corresponding changes in related tables. If your tables get out of synchronization with each other, you risk retrieving erroneous information and you risk unpredictable results throughout Oracle E-Business Suite.
When you use Oracle E-Business Suite to modify your data, Oracle E-Business Suite automatically checks that your changes are valid. Oracle E-Business Suite also keeps track of who changes information. If you enter information into database tables using database tools, you may store invalid information. You also lose the ability to track who has changed your information because SQL*Plus and other database tools do not keep a record of changes.