Toolkit Development Process - and API maintenance

I'm interested in understanding how Sun and other 'toolkit' providers manage their software development cycles to maintain public APIs from release to release.
I am currently part of a large software project which plans to deploy a large existing codebase as a toolkit for others to develop on top of. I'm concerned about our ability to manage changes to our public APIs once we provide our toolkit to external developers. Once they start extending our classes and interfacing with our APIs, we have to be very careful about what we change - and ideally we should have some way to 'deprecate' things.
How does a company like Sun manage this for the JDK? Or how do other companies that do similar things work through this? Anyone know of any good reference material (books / online / etc.)?
Thanks,
Aaron Schmidt

None of this is official as far as I know, but Sun appear to follow a few very simple rules:
Proper use of namespaces - if you write code that relies on com.sun.* packages then that's your problem. Code which relies on java.* or javax.* and the rest of the public APIs will generally work from release to release.
Addition of new functionality is favoured over changes to, or deletion of, old functionality. For example, the nio classes did not result in the removal of the existing io classes.
Deprecated methods and classes are marked as such, but not removed for several release cycles.
I don't see why you would need to do anything more complex than follow these quite simple rules. Obviously you would need a suitable unit test suite to ensure that your API is consistent from release to release, but you should be doing that anyway.
Dave.

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commit;
END;
Regards,
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In the same lines there are methods in PAPI and PAPI-WS or a process exposed as a Web Service to create an instance, there are methods to send a notification to a given instance in a given activity of the process. Using this API Calls, you can signal the instance in wait state and send some additional information so that when the Wait activity is executed, the instance is moved forward.
HTH,
eduardoc.

Error while running Process Order API to import orders - URGENT HELP NEEDED

Hi all,
I'm stuck with order import using OE_ORDER_PUB.PROCESS_ORDER api. Wanted to import a simple order in Vision database using the process order api. Figured out the right data to use, inserted into Headers and Lines Iface All tables. When calling the OE_ORDER_PUB.PROCESS_ORDER api, it is throwing this error:
"Header ID does not exist on this record or does not match ID specified on header record. You require a valid header ID if the operation is Create."
But when I validate the same record using the CORRECTIONS form in Order Import GUI, the order is successfully validated. Also the order is imported when I click the IMPORT button.
I understand that HEADER_ID column is not required for creating a new order, but not sure why it is erroring. Here is the data I'm using:
Insert into oe_headers_iface_all
(org_id, order_type_id, order_source_id, orig_sys_document_ref, ordered_date, request_date,
sold_from_org_id, sold_to_org_id, ship_from_org_id, ship_to_org_id, invoice_to_org_id,
CREATED_BY,CREATION_DATE,LAST_UPDATED_BY,LAST_UPDATE_DATE,LAST_UPDATE_LOGIN,OPERATION_CODE)
values (204, 1430, 1046, '101040', sysdate, sysdate, 204, 1004, 606, 1018, 1017, 0, sysdate, 0, sysdate, 0, 'CREATE');
Insert into oe_lines_iface_all
("ORDER_SOURCE_ID","ORIG_SYS_DOCUMENT_REF","ORIG_SYS_LINE_REF","ORIG_SYS_SHIPMENT_REF","ORG_ID","INVENTORY_ITEM","LINE_TYPE_ID",request_date,"SCHEDULE_DATE","DELIVERY_LEAD_TIME","ORDERED_QUANTITY","ORDER_QUANTITY_UOM",sold_from_org_id, sold_to_org_id, ship_from_org_id, ship_to_org_id, invoice_to_org_id,"UNIT_SELLING_PRICE","CREATED_BY","CREATION_DATE","LAST_UPDATED_BY","LAST_UPDATE_DATE","LAST_UPDATE_LOGIN","OPERATION_CODE")
values
(1046,'101040', '1', '1', 204, 'AS72111', 1427, sysdate, sysdate+1, 0, 10, 'Ea' ,204, 1004, 606, 1018, 1017,100,0,sysdate,0,sysdate,0,'CREATE');
Any help is appreciated.
FYI - this is a 11.5.10.2 version installed on Windows 2003 server.
Thanks in advance.
Jags

I might be late in replying, but hope it might help.
From your query it seems you are inserting records into interface tables and then calling process order API( probably from some PL/SQL block).
This is where I am confused, because I hope you understand, that interface tables are for use with Order Import concurrent Program, and for Process ORder API, you need to provide the data as parameter. The api has, header record type and line table type as parameters. So you need to assign correct data to these variables and pass them as parameter when you are calling Process Order API.
If you are doing the same thing, then post the exact pl/SQL code and error message from the API. That might help diagnose the issue.
Regards,
Nitin Darji

Default value in dropdown field for FPM form in HCM Processes and forms

Hi Experts,
I am developing HCM Processes and forms using FPM forms and I had a dropdown list contains ten values. So, every time while opening the form first time, my dropdown field should be defaulted with fifth value from the list. How can we achieve this in dropdown field related to FPM Form.
Please guide me.
Regards,
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PS: There are posts which talk about generic services , make yourself comfortable with the concept of generic services.

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