What you need for this book

Oracle uses a great many tools to develop extensions. The tools we will mostly focus on in this book are as follows:

  • Access to an EBS R12 environment
  • Oracle Forms Developer
  • SQL Developer
  • Oracle Workflow Builder

Other utility programs we will be using are:

  • WinSCP
  • Putty
  • Text Editor

There are a number of languages used for programming and writing scripts that Oracle supports. We are going to primarily focus on the following in this book:

  • PL/SQL
  • SQL
  • Unix shell scripting

Other languages such as Java, Pro*C, and Pro*COBOL are also used within EBS but fall outside the scope of this book.

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