About This Content

This guide provides information about the OSM Order-to-Activate cartridges for the Oracle Communications Order to Cash Integration Pack for Oracle Communications Order and Service Management. It explains how to install and deploy the cartridges and provides detailed information and best practices on how to extend them for your own implementation.

Audience

This document is intended for programmers who have a working knowledge of:

• System interfaces
• Java development
• Java Messaging Service (JMS)
• XML Technologies (including XQuery and XPath)

This document assumes that you have read OSM Concepts, and have a conceptual understanding of:

• Cartridges
• Topologies
• Orders
• Order states
• Tasks
• Task states

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