Understanding the Action Framework

The action framework is a suite of components that are designed to manage actions and to invoke actions at runtime. The primary purpose of the action framework is to enable functional users to specify and configure the actions to be performed when policy conditions evaluate to true.

Also, Oracle designed the action framework to enable application developers and IT personnel to introduce new action types for use in policies and to invoke them at runtime.

The action framework components:

• Register and maintain action types. An action type is metadata pertaining to a class of actions that can be performed at runtime.

• Register and maintain action bundles. Action bundles are groups of combinable action types.

• Embed and configure consequential actions within policies.

• Provide a display alert action type for use with all product lines.