The following APIs can be called by a notification agent to manage notifications for a notification activity. The APIs are stored in the PL./SQL package called WF_NOTIFICATION.
Many of these notification APIs also have corresponding Java methods that you can call from any Java program to integrate with Oracle Workflow. The following list indicates whether the notification APIs are available as PL/SQL functions/procedures, as Java methods, or both. See: Oracle Workflow Java Interface.
Note: Java is case-sensitive and all Java method names begin with a lower case letter to follow Java naming conventions.
Note: The WF_NOTIFICATION.SubstituteSpecialChars() API from earlier versions of Oracle Workflow is replaced by the WF_CORE.SubstituteSpecialChars() API. The current version of Oracle Workflow still recognizes the WF_NOTIFICATION.SubstituteSpecialChars() API for backward compatibility, but moving forward, you should only use the new WF_CORE.SubstituteSpecialChars() API where appropriate.
The Notification System raises business events when a notification is sent, closed, canceled, or reassigned, or when a user responds to a notification, requests more information about a notification, or responds to a request with answering information. Although Oracle Workflow does not include any predefined subscriptions to some of these events, you can optionally define your own subscriptions to these events if you want to perform custom processing when they occur. See: Notification Events and To Create or Update an Event Subscription.