Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Oracle E-Business Suite File System


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Applications Product Subdirectories and File Types file types
Subdirectory Name
Description
admin
The <PROD>_TOP/admin directory contains product-specific files used to upgrade each product. This is in distinction to the <APPL_TOP>/admin directory, which contains upgrade-related files for all products.
driver
Contains driver files (.drv files) used in upgrading.
import
Contains DataMerge files used to upgrade seed data.
odf
Contains object description files (.odf files) used to create tables and other database objects.
sql
Contains SQL*Plus scripts used to upgrade data, and .pkh, .pkb, and .pls scripts to create PL/SQL stored procedures.
bin
Contains concurrent programs, other C language programs and shell scripts for each product.
forms
Contains Oracle Forms generated runtime (.fmx) files (Oracle Forms form files).
help
Contains the online help source files. Within this directory are subdirectories for each language installed.
html
Contains HTML, JavaScript, and JavaServer Page (JSP) files, primarily for HTML-based Applications products.
include
Contains C language header (.h) files that my be linked with files in the lib directory. Not all products require this directory.
java
Contains JAR files (Java Archive files) and Java dependency files. Copies of JAR files are also located in the $AF_JLIB directory.
lib
Contains files used to relink concurrent programs with the Oracle server libraries. These files include:
  • object files (.o on UNIX, .OBJ on Windows), with compiled code specific to one of the product's programs.
  • library files (.a on UNIX, various including .DLL on Windows), with compiled code common to the product's programs.
  • make files (.mk) that specify how to create executables from object files and library files.
log and out
Contains output files for concurrent programs:
  • .mgr (master log file for concurrent manager)
  • .req (log file for a concurrent process)

Note that log and out subdirectories under a product directory are not used if you choose to set up a common directory for log and output files (FND_TOP is the only exception to this).
media
Contains .gif files used in the display of text and graphics on the desktop client.
mesg
Concurrent programs also print messages in the log and output files. This directory contains the .msb files (binary message files used at runtime), and language-specific message files (such as a US.msb file for American English and a D.msb file for German). The files contain the forms messages that are displayed at the bottom of the screen or in popup windows.
patch
Updates to the data or data model utilize this directory to store the patch files.
reports
Contains Oracle Reports platform-specific rdf binary report files for each product. Reports for each language are stored in subdirectories of the reports directory.
resource
Contains .pll files (PL/SQL library files for Oracle Forms), which, like the plsql directory files, are later copied to AU_TOP.
sql
Contains .sql files (SQL*Plus scripts) for concurrent processing.