Integration of EBS in OBIEE 11G

Hi Experts,
Could any one tell me,How to integrate OBIEE 11G with E-Business Suite,Got some steps but still it is not clear.
Gone through some forums,But it is not clear,So please do the needful.
Many Thanks.
Edited by: 990728 on Mar 18, 2013 5:26 PM

You should be first looking into the Security Guide - http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14571_01/bi.1111/e16364/ebs_actions.htm#CJAFDEIB
http://www.astcorporation.com/images/PDFs/White_Papers/2012/AST_White_Paper-EBS-OBIEE_11g_Integration.pdf
http://obieeelegant.blogspot.com/2012/01/obiee-11g-integration-with-ldap.html
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I used a document from the german APEX forum to integrate Oracle Business Intelligence 11g (OBIEE) with APEX.
After login in OBIEE a APEX page will be called without login in APEX.
The Document is called "APEX in Oracle Business Intelligence (Oracle BI) integrieren"
http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/de/community/apex/tipps/biee-apex/index.html
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FUNCTION get_apex_session_id (p_username IN VARCHAR2,p_days_valid IN NUMBER DEFAULT 1) RETURN VARCHAR2
IS
pragma autonomous_transaction;
l_session_id NUMBER;
l_valid_to DATE;
l_count NUMBER;
l_password VARCHAR2(4000);
BEGIN
l_valid_to := SYSDATE + NVL(p_days_valid,1);
-- Let us delete expired records:
BEGIN
DELETE FROM apex_biee_session
WHERE valid_to < TRUNC(SYSDATE,'DD');
COMMIT;
EXCEPTION
WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN NULL;
END;
-- get next APEX session id:
l_session_id := apex_custom_auth.get_next_session_id;
-- Insert the BIEE user and the APEX session id in table APEX_BIEE_SESSION
INSERT INTO apex_biee_session (username, sessioN_id, valid_to)
VALUES (UPPER(p_username),l_session_id,l_valid_to);
COMMIT;
-- define an APEX user session:
apex_custom_auth.define_user_session(
p_user => UPPER(p_username),
p_session_id => l_session_id);
htmldb_application.g_unrecoverable_error := TRUE; -- tell apex engine to quit
RETURN l_session_id;
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN RETURN '-99';
END get_apex_session_id;
CREATE TABLE "APEX_BIEE_SESSION"
(     "USERNAME"     VARCHAR2(60),
     "SESSION_ID"     NUMBER,
     "VALID_TO"     DATE,
     CONSTRAINT "APEX_BIEE_SESSION_PK" PRIMARY KEY ("USERNAME","SESSION_ID")
In APEX this page sentry function is called:
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-- used as page sentry function in APEX applications
FUNCTION page_sentry RETURN BOOLEAN
IS
l_current_sid NUMBER;
l_biee_userid VARCHAR2(255);
l_cookie owa_cookie.cookie;
l_c_value VARCHAR2(255) := NULL;
l_cookie_tom owa_cookie.cookie;
l_c_value_tom VARCHAR2(255) := NULL;
l_session_id NUMBER;
l_biee_auth     VARCHAR2(1) := 'N';
BEGIN
BEGIN
-- If normal APEX user authentication is used, cookie LOGIN_USERNAME_COOKIE will be used
l_cookie_tom := owa_cookie.get('LOGIN_USERNAME_COOKIE');
l_c_value_tom := l_cookie_tom.vals(1);
l_biee_userid := UPPER(l_cookie_tom.vals(1));
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN NULL;
END;
l_session_id := apex_custom_auth.get_session_id; -- in APEX 4.2.1 this returns NULL
-- Do we have a record in table APEX_BIEE_SESSION with the current session id
BEGIN
SELECT UPPER(username) INTO l_biee_userid
FROM apex_biee_session
WHERE session_id = l_session_id AND valid_to > SYSDATE;
l_biee_auth := 'Y';
EXCEPTION
WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN l_biee_userid := 'Failed';
END;
IF l_biee_userid = 'Failed' THEN
IF l_c_value_tom IS NULL THEN
l_biee_userid := NULL;
ELSE
l_biee_userid := UPPER(l_c_value_tom);
END IF;
END IF;
-- If l_biee_userid is NULL we need to call the APEX login page (done by RETURN FALSE)
IF l_biee_userid IS NULL THEN
RETURN FALSE;
END IF;
IF l_biee_auth = 'N' THEN
l_current_sid := apex_custom_auth.get_session_id_from_cookie;
ELSE
l_current_sid := l_session_id;
END IF;
-- This is the built-in part of the session verification
IF apex_custom_auth.is_session_valid THEN
wwv_flow.g_instance := l_current_sid;
IF apex_custom_auth.get_username IS NULL THEN
apex_custom_auth.define_user_session(
p_user => UPPER(l_biee_userid),
p_session_id => l_current_sid);
RETURN TRUE;
ELSE
IF UPPER(l_biee_userid) = UPPER(apex_custom_auth.get_username) THEN
apex_custom_auth.define_user_session(
p_user =>UPPER(l_biee_userid),
p_session_id =>l_current_sid);
RETURN TRUE;
ELSE -- username mismatch. Unset the session cookie and redirect back here to take other branch
apex_custom_auth.logout(
p_this_app=>v('APP_ID'),
p_next_app_page_sess=>v('APP_ID')||':'||nvl(v('APP_PAGE_ID'),0)||':'||l_current_sid);
wwv_flow.g_unrecoverable_error := true; -- tell htmldb engine to quit
RETURN FALSE;
END IF;
END IF;
ELSE -- application session cookie not valid; we need a new apex session
IF l_biee_auth <> 'Y' THEN
l_session_id := apex_custom_auth.get_next_session_id;
END IF;
apex_custom_auth.define_user_session(
p_user => l_biee_userid,
p_session_id => l_session_id);
wwv_flow.g_unrecoverable_error := true; -- tell htmldb engine to quit
IF owa_util.get_cgi_env('REQUEST_METHOD') = 'GET' THEN
wwv_flow_custom_auth.remember_deep_link(
p_url=>'f?'||wwv_flow_utilities.url_decode2(owa_util.get_cgi_env('QUERY_STRING')));
ELSE
wwv_flow_custom_auth.remember_deep_link(
p_url=>'f?p='||
TO_CHAR(wwv_flow.g_flow_id)||':'||
TO_CHAR(nvl(wwv_flow.g_flow_step_id,0))||':'||
TO_CHAR(wwv_flow.g_instance));
END IF;
apex_custom_auth.post_login( -- register session in htmldb sessions table, set cookie, redirect back
p_uname => l_biee_userid,
p_app_page => wwv_flow.g_flow_id||':'||nvl(wwv_flow.g_flow_step_id,0));
RETURN FALSE;
END IF;
END page_sentry;
The problem seems to be that in line "l_session_id := apex_custom_auth.get_session_id;" the call of apex_custom_auth.get_session_id is returning NULL in APEX 4.2.1.
In APEX 4.0 the call of apex_custom_auth.get_session_id returned the APEX session id.
What can I do to get this working again ?
Kind Regards,
Markus
Edited by: asmodius1 on Jan 10, 2013 2:06 PM

Hi,
this integration relies on session fixation, that's an insecure practice which is not allowed anymore since 4.1:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_fixation
Since the cookie value for the session id is missing, Apex rejects the session id and sets it to null, before calling the sentry function.
If you absolutely want to use this kind of integration, you will have to parse the value of owa_util.get_cgi_env('QUERY_STRING') in the sentry function to get the session id. To make it a bit more secure, the row in APEX_BIEE_SESSION should only be valid for a very short time (e.g. 1 sec). A person from Oracle Support contacted me about possible improvements to this authentication a few weeks ago. I replied with the following suggestions:
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exists.
Regards,
Christian

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