Oracle Applications 11.5.

10
-Architecture and Tools
Overview
Sandra Vucinic
VLAD Group, Inc.
 Speaker Background
• Sandra Vucinic
– Over 11 years of experience with Oracle database,
applications, development and administration tools
– Project roles: Architect, Oracle Apps DBA, Project
Lead
– Director, OAUG Database SIG Board
– Director, OAUG SysAdmin SIG and Committee Chair,
Oracle Tools and Utilities
– Director, SROAUG Board
– Presented at OAUG, NCOAUG, CSOAUG, SROAUG,
Apps World and Open World conferences (30+
sessions)
– Founded VLAD Group, Inc. in March, 2001
 Agenda
• 11.5.10 Technology Stack Components
• New Features in:
– OAM (Oracle Applications Manager)
– AD mini-pack I.1
– Oracle Applications Framework
– Workflow
– AOL (Application Object Library)
• 9i database
• 10g database
 11i Architecture – Components
Release 11.5.10 CD Release
Client
Tier JInitiator

Web HTTP Servers Application Technology Stack

Middle
Tier Admin Concurrent
Apache
Server Processing Server

Discoverer
Server Forms Reports
Server Server
9iAS ORACLE_HOME
8.0.6.3 ORACLE_HOME
(1.0.2.2.2)
Database 9.2.0.5
Tier Database 9.2.0.5 ORACLE_HOME
 11.5.10 Technology Stack Components
• Database Tier
– Oracle 9i Enterprise Edition 9.2.0.5
• Middle Tier
– Oracle 9i AS version 1.0.2.2.2
• Oracle HTTP Server – Rollup patch 4 (bug
3072811)
• Forms and Reports – Developer 6i with Patch 15 -
version 6.0.8.24
– JDK version 1.4.2 (both concurrent processing
and web tier)
– Oracle JSP Container version 1.1.3.4
• Client Tier
– Oracle JInitiator version 1.3.1.16 on the PC
 11.5.10 Technology Stack Components

• 8i database is not certified to run with

11.5.10 (de-support 12/31/2004)
• Discoverer 4i version 4.1.48 included
• Discoverer 10g (9.0.4) certified in separate
Oracle home
• Oracle Application Server 10g (Oracle
Internet Directory 9.0.4, Portal 9.0.4,
Single Sign-On 9.0.4) certified on a stand-
alone server
 Oracle Applications Manager
• OAM – management html tool for 11i
applications
• Included in version 11.5.7 or higher
• Used primarily for:
– examining system configuration
– managing Oracle Workflow
– administering services
– measuring system usage
– patch history “repository”
 New and Changed Features in OAM
• Enhanced Web Server Monitoring
– Provides a summary of running JServ instances , memory
stats, database connection stats for each instance
– Monitors AOL/J database connection pool within each
instance
• Oracle Forms Runaway Process Detection
– Scans Forms server for runaway f60webmx processes
• Support Cart enhancements
– Captures system configuration, patch history, diagnostics
results into single file
• Extended Concurrent Processing Performance
Charts
– New charts and reports to monitor and analyze concurrent
processing utilization and performance
New and Changed Features in OAM
• Enhanced Patch Impact Analysis
– Downloads and analyzes patch data, recommends
patches
– Analyzes pre requisites and impact of patches
– Provides an aggregate impact of patch combined with
its prerequisites
• Patch Advisor InfoBundle
– Automatically downloads InfoBundle for Metalink
– Downloads and merges patches directly from OAM
• Patch database history enhancements
– For merged patches search results show an individual
patches
 New and Changed Features in OAM
• Context Editor Enhancements
– Supports variables that depend on the values of other variables
– Allows to add custom variables
– Database tier context can be edited from OAM
• Monitoring Applications DBA Utilities from OAM
– Allows you to monitor in-progress “adadmin” and “adpatch”
• System Cloning
– Manage overall cloning process directly from OAM
– Pre-clone “interview” starts cloning process
– OAM automates most steps and guides you through remaining
steps
– Cloning types supported: “single node to single node ”, “single
node to multi node”, “multi node to multi node”
New and Changed Features in OAM
• Advanced Configuration Wizards
– Automate configuration tasks such as: enabling load
balancing, converting to SSL
• Host Based Service Management
– Allows to manage and monitor services by host
• Security Page in Applications Dashboard
– Allows to monitor failed login attempts, blocked user
accounts, inactive user accounts
• Restricted Mode Access
– Allows access to limited set of features while the rest
of apps are unavailable
 AD mini-pack I.1 - New Features

• AD Controller (adctrl) runs in non-

interactive mode
• AD Merge Patch utility – merging zip files
• Auto Patch automatically calls AutoConfig
(including “test” mode)
– ADX.E included in AD.I
• Eliminated MRC schema overhead
– reduces patch downtime
 AD mini-pack I.1 - New Features

• Maintenance Mode feature

– Used only during “adpatch” sessions
– Shuts down Workflow Events System
• Distributed AD
– Allows to start AD workers on any node of
“Shared APPL_TOP”
– For more info review note id. 236469.1
• Use “parallel slaves” for creation of large
indexes
 AD mini-pack I.1 - New Features

• Patch history details written to “.lgi” file

• Patch History for partially applied patches
• ODF support for locally managed
tablespaces
• JSP compile improvements
– adpatch runs JSP compile on “web server”
node only
• Increased help options for AD utilities
OA Framework – New Features in 11.5.10

• First release of OA-Framework integrated

development environment
– Oracle JDeveloper OA Extension – wizards,
property sheets for defining apps business
logic
• Personalization and Extensibility
– Configurable Pages – designed with built-in
layout personalization and content selection
capabilities
– Partial Page Rendering (PPR) enabled for
more components (descriptive flexfields,
subtabs and Gantt charts)
 Workflow
• OWF mini-pack H (3258819) included in 11.5.10
release
• New Features of OWF.H:
– Self-Service Diagnostic Scripts
– Workflow Purge Includes Messaging Content
– E-mail Security Policy
– Digital Signature for Notifications
– Notification Mailer Enhancements
• Stops mailer when a defined number of errors have been
detected
• Sends notifications in a summary form or in individual e-mails
• Flags notification content as “secure”
 Application Object Library
• Oracle Applications Tablespace Model (OATM)
– Reduces number of tablespaces from 2 per
product to 12 tablespaces (including 3 systems
tablespaces: undo, system and temp) for all
modules
– Supports locally managed tablespaces
– Database objects mapped to tablespaces bases
on: object size, life span, access methods and
locking granularity
– Eases maintenance and reduces space usages
– Supports RAC (Real Application Clusters)
 Application Object Library

• Oracle Applications Tablespace Migration

Utility
– Interactive menu based PERL program
– Series for sizing estimate reports for
converting database schemas to OATM
– Available for pre 11.5.10 customers as stand
alone patch 3381489
– Customers must be on AD.H and on database
version 9.2.0.4 or higher
 9i database
• 9.2 – terminal release of Oracle 9i
• Recommended version – 9.2.0.5 – This version
is only certified with apps 11.5.7 or higher
• Release 9.0.1.x (9i ) de-supported as of
12/31/2003
• 8i support for 11i apps customers extended until
July 31, 2005
• To upgrade to version 9.2.x use:

"Interoperability Notes : Oracle Applications Rele

ase 11
i with Oracle9i Release 2 (9.2.0)", (Doc ID:
216550.1)
 10g database – New Features
• Optimizer Enhancements
– Runtime execution plans accessible in
“v$sql_plan”
– CPU Costing – new columns in a plan table
(CPU_COST and IO_COST)
– Workload Statistics
– Bind variables values available in
“v$sql_bind_capture”
– Rule Based Optimizer (RBO) finally “retired”
 10g database – New Features
• Manageability
– Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor
(ADDM)
• Automatically diagnoses performance problems
• Provides Root Cause Analysis; recommends
solutions
– Automatic Workload Repository (AWR)
• Replacement for StatsPack
• Takes periodic snapshots
– Automatic SGA tuning (shared pool, buffer
cache, log buffer, java pool)
 10g database – New Features
• PL/SQL Improvements
– Global Optimizer
• Computes certain operations during compilation
rather then during execution
• Reuses expression values
– Improved Native Compilation
• JDBC improvements
– Improved connection cache
– Bundled calls (single round trip per SQL call)
Q&A
 Thank You

Sandra Vucinic

sandrav@vladgroup.com

(630) 202-1248

www.vladgroup.com