Oracle Fusion Applications 101: Enterprise Scheduling Service

I suspect these posts will continually try to relate functionality in Fusion Applications (FA) with my background in Oracle e-Business Suite (EBS), so apologies if your from the JD Edwards, PeopleSoft or Siebel crowd.

SAP? Well no apologies or sympathy, we all have our problems.

The Enterprise Scheduling Service (ESS) provides the EBS Concurrent Manager equivalent service in FA but with an extended list of features and functionality. The Enterprise Scheduler is a J2EE application that provides schedule based callbacks to other applications to run their jobs, it does not execute the jobs itself.

Here is some interesting points to note:

• Completely Metadata driven: the metadata consists of job definitions, including the executable class, parameters and schedules. All Metadata is created using Oracle JDeveloper, limited functionality via FA ESS Job Definition UI to register a Job.
• Job Definition or Job = Concurrent Program in EBS.
• Job Set = Request Set in EBS, sequential or parallel set of Job Steps, where a Job Step can be a single Job or another Job Set.
• Different job types, including JAVA, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*LOADER, C, HOST and BIPublisher.
• Includes features like Incompatibility, Schedules and Workshifts.
• Monitoring of jobs through ESS Monitor UI and/or Oracle Fusion Applications Control (Enterprise Manager)

Want to know more, see the Oracle® Fusion Applications Developer's Guide for Oracle Enterprise Scheduler for more detail.

#OracleFusionApplicationLesson 2 for Oracle EBS Developers: Your going to be defining concurrent programs through JDeveloper.