Retrofitting and Getting rid of JDE Base program modifications
For many JD Edwards customers, customizations solve important business challenges—but they can also create significant upgrade and maintenance overhead. During this session, Lisa Tran of Monterey Mushrooms will share her practical approach to reducing base program modifications, simplifying retrofits, and leveraging modern JD Edwards extensibility tools.
Drawing from real-world experience, Lisa walks through how her team evaluates existing customizations, identifies opportunities to replace code with form extensions, logic extensions, orchestrations, and other UDOs, and systematically reduces the number of objects requiring retrofit during upgrades and ESU adoption.
You’ll see detailed examples from actual Monterey Mushrooms projects, including lessons learned, unexpected challenges, workarounds, and the measurable benefits of moving functionality out of modified applications and into upgrade-friendly tools.
Whether you’re struggling with retrofit fatigue, planning your next upgrade, or looking for ways to modernize your JD Edwards environment, this session offers practical guidance you can apply immediately.
Key Takeaways:
- Identify customization candidates for modernization
- Reduce retrofit effort using JD Edwards extensibility tools
- Learn where logic extensions and form extensions work best
- Understand current limitations and practical workarounds
- Build a long-term strategy for eliminating unnecessary base code modifications
Speaker: Lisa Tran
