Oracle Visual Builder: Applications That Outlive Their First Release · Module 5 · Data: business objects and external services
When to keep data here, and when not to
Lesson 46 of 176 · 3 min
A SECOND COPY OF A FUSION RECORD IS A RECONCILIATION PROBLEM WAITING. The NARROW CASES where local data is right. The temptation is always the same and always reasonable: the Fusion call is slow, or awkward, or returns more than you want — so copy the records locally and read them from there. WHAT THAT BUYS IS REAL AND WHAT IT COSTS ARRIVES LATER, WHICH IS WHY THE TRADE LOOKS GOOD. The page is fast today. And from the moment the first row is copied, two systems hold the same fact and nothing keeps them equal — somebody edits the record in Fusion, your copy does not move, and your application is confidently showing a number that is wrong. THE FAILURE IS SILENT AND IT IS ALWAYS DISCOVERED BY SOMEBODY ACTING ON IT. No error, no log line, nothing in the network tab; just a customer address that was updated…
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In this module: Module 5 · Data: business objects and external services
- 1Business objects: your own database
- 2When to keep data here, and when not to
- 3Designing a business object
- 4Object rules and triggers
- 5Importing and exporting data
- 6The endpoints your objects expose
- 7External services: the other half
- 8Reference data and lookups
- 9What breaks: three data failures
- 10Lab briefing · Two sources, one screen