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Oracle Visual Builder: Applications That Outlive Their First Release · Module 17 · Quarterly updates and VBCS

Two calendars, not one

Lesson 164 of 176 · 2 min

The PLATFORM and the SERVICES YOU CALL move SEPARATELY. Which of your artefacts is EXPOSED TO WHICH. An application here sits between two things that are upgraded on their own schedules, and most of the surprise in this module comes from treating them as one event. THE PLATFORM CALENDAR CHANGES THE THINGS YOU BUILT WITH. Components, the runtime, the designer, the framework's own behaviour. Everything on your pages is exposed to it — and the exposure is largest where you did something unusual, per Module 9 Lesson 4. THE SERVICE CALENDAR CHANGES THE THINGS YOU CALL. Fusion's REST APIs, the shape of what they return, which attributes exist. Every service connection and every generated type is exposed to it — Module 6 Lesson 8. AND THEY DO NOT MOVE TOGETHER, WHICH IS THE PRACTICAL POINT. A quarter can bring a platform change with no API change, or the reverse, or

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In this module: Module 17 · Quarterly updates and VBCS

  1. 1Two calendars, not one
  2. 2Reading a release note for risk
  3. 3Component and runtime versions
  4. 4A regression pack for an application
  5. 5Testing in the update window
  6. 6What breaks: after the update
  7. 7Lab briefing · Assess a real release note