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Oracle EBS 12.2 & Ruby

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As does seem to occur from time-to-time, I’m out there in the weeds again and sorting out a solution that fits a customer’s need. They wanted to know if they could write Oracle EBS 12.2 Concurrent Manager Programs in Ruby. They don’t want to write Java.

I checked the documentation, which as is too common, didn’t answer the question. I’m sure if I downloaded the PDF and searched it for one of the languages I knew Oracle supported, I would have found the list of supported languages.

It was simply quicker to query the Oracle EBS 12.2 FND_LOOKUPS table like so:

SELECT   lookup_type
,        lookup_code
,        SUBSTR(meaning,1,30) AS meaning
FROM     fnd_lookups
WHERE    lookup_type = 'CP_EXECUTION_METHOD_CODE'
ORDER BY meaning;

It returns the list of possible types of Oracle EBS 12.2 Concurrent Manager Programs:

LOOKUP_TYPE		   LOOKUP_CODE	MEANING
-------------------------- ------------ ------------------------------
CP_EXECUTION_METHOD_CODE   X		FlexRpt
CP_EXECUTION_METHOD_CODE   F		FlexSql
CP_EXECUTION_METHOD_CODE   H		Host
CP_EXECUTION_METHOD_CODE   S		Immediate
CP_EXECUTION_METHOD_CODE   K		Java Concurrent Program
CP_EXECUTION_METHOD_CODE   J		Java Stored Procedure
CP_EXECUTION_METHOD_CODE   M		Multi Language Function
CP_EXECUTION_METHOD_CODE   P		Oracle Reports
CP_EXECUTION_METHOD_CODE   I		PL/SQL Stored Procedure
CP_EXECUTION_METHOD_CODE   E		Perl Concurrent Program
CP_EXECUTION_METHOD_CODE   B		Request Set Stage Function
CP_EXECUTION_METHOD_CODE   L		SQL*Loader
CP_EXECUTION_METHOD_CODE   Q		SQL*Plus
CP_EXECUTION_METHOD_CODE   R		SQL*Report
CP_EXECUTION_METHOD_CODE   Z		Shutdown Callback
CP_EXECUTION_METHOD_CODE   A		Spawned

That gave me some of the answer. You can’t call Ruby programs directly. However, Perl lets you use Inline::Ruby. You can use Inline:Ruby to call your Ruby programs. So, if you use Perl to wrap Ruby you don’t have to use Java.

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August 23rd, 2016 at 11:50 am