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Overview

HR_APPLICANT_BE4 is a server-side PL/SQL package owned by the APPS schema within the Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Release 12.1.1 and 12.2.2 environment. It belongs to the Oracle Human Resources (HR) and, specifically, the iRecruitment / Applicant functional family, where "BE" conventionally denotes a Business Event or back-end processing component. In the standard Oracle EBS naming idiom, HR_APPLICANT packages encapsulate the business logic that governs the recruitment lifecycle, from candidate registration through applicant conversion and hire. HR_APPLICANT_BE4 sits alongside sibling packages such as HR_APPLICANT_BK4, which the ETRM dependency report identifies as a referencing object, indicating that HR_APPLICANT_BE4 participates in a coordinated package group that partitions applicant-related logic across multiple units.

The package is documented with a status of VALID and an API classification of OTHER, meaning Oracle does not publish it as a formally supported public API. It is an internal implementation package. Its primary documented purpose is to support the conversion of a prospect or external candidate into an applicant record, a prerequisite step before an application can be attached to a requisition or vacancy.

Key Procedures and Functions

The ETRM metadata documents exactly one procedure or function within this package:

  • CONVERT_TO_APPLICANT_A — The documented entry point for converting a candidate into an applicant. The trailing "_A" suffix follows Oracle's convention for the primary procedure in a package that performs a specific business action. Its role is to execute the applicant-conversion logic, including validation of candidate eligibility, creation or update of the applicant record, and propagation of associated business events. The ETRM documentation does not expose the formal parameter list, and no parameter signature is asserted here.

No additional documented procedures or functions are listed for this object. Any internal helper routines present in the package body are not part of the documented interface.

Tables Accessed

The ETRM report identifies three referenced dependencies accessed through APPS synonyms:

  • PER_WF_EVENTS_S — The workflow events sequence, used to obtain or manage identifiers for events raised during applicant conversion. This indicates the package participates in Oracle Workflow event generation, which is consistent with the Oracle HRMS applicant flow integration.
  • DBMS_LOB — The Oracle-supplied large object package, referenced for handling CLOB or BLOB data such as resume text or attachments associated with the candidate or applicant.
  • DUAL — The standard single-row pseudo-table, typically used for scalar expressions, sequence lookups, or return-value assignment within PL/SQL.

The package also references the SYS.STANDARD package, the implicit PL/SQL runtime definition, which appears in dependencies for virtually every stored program unit.

Usage Notes

HR_APPLICANT_BE4 is an internal package and is not intended for direct invocation by customers. It is normally called by other Oracle HRMS recruitment components — notably HR_APPLICANT_BE4 is referenced by HR_APPLICANT_BK4, indicating a companion or wrapper package that may coordinate the "A" and "K" logic variants. Invocation typically occurs indirectly through the iRecruitment and Applicant form flows, through concurrent programs that process candidate conversions, or through Workflow background processing triggered when an external candidate is transformed into an internal applicant. Because the object is classified as OTHER and no public API is documented, customizations that call CONVERT_TO_APPLICANT_A directly carry support and upgrade risk. Customers requiring applicant-conversion functionality should prefer documented public APIs or the supplied business flows rather than referencing this package in custom code.