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Oracle EBS developers are encouraged to use XML Publisher Report to replace Oracle Report.  However, it could be tedious that one needs to go through the “login-click-upload-run request-see result” routine for data template and RTF template files through the EBS portal in order to test a small change.  Oracle does provide XML Publisher Desktop, a Microsoft Word add-on, to design and test the report layout.  However uploading data template to EBS is still needed for testing the XML data generation.  If you’re working in a remote instance with a slow connection, it could be painful to do the development and hence lower the work productivity.

XDO Client is a solution.  It simplifies the development cycle of XML Publisher report by providing a standalone application to do both XML data generation plus the document generation in one place.

Features

Data Template

• Use Oracle BI Publisher Data Template to generate XML data file
• Parameters can be entered in runtime
• Output filename can be in timestamp, UUID, or user-defined format
• Pretty-format XML output

Document Generation

• Same as BI Publisher Desktop, XDO Client can take a sample XML data file and RTF template to generate PDF, RTF, HTML, Excel and eText output.
• You can run both Data Template and Document Generation in one pass, similar in the EBS environment.

Database Connection

• Direct JDBC Connection
• Oracle EBS AppsDataSource Connection
• Session can be instantiated using EBS user and a responsibility.  So session-specific views (e.g. MOAC security-enforced, NLS view, Org-ID specific) can be used as in EBS environment.