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Introduction

This chapter discusses Oracle Application Server InterConnect Adapter for FTP (FTP adapter) and the hardware and software requirements. This chapter provides an overview of the FTP adapter.

FTP Adapter Overview

The FTP adapter enables an Oracle FTP Application to be integrated with other applications using Oracle Application Server InterConnect (OracleAS InterConnect). This adapter is useful in all enterprise application integration scenarios involving the FTP transport protocol or local file system. The FTP adapter can monitor incoming messages which are in the form of FTP files placed in a remote FTP server or on local file systems. The FTP adapter is also capable of sending messages to remote FTP servers via proxy host. The payload for this adapter can be XML data or D3L data.

The following two diagrams show the data flow of incoming messages, from remote FTP server/local file system to OracleAS InterConnect, and the outgoing messages from OracleAS InterConnect to the remote FTP Server.

See Also: Oracle Application Server InterConnect User's Guide

Figure 1-1 Incoming Messages Diagram

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Figure 1-2 Outgoing Messages Diagram

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Hardware Requirements

Table 1-1 lists the hardware requirements for the computer on which the Oracle FTP adapter is installed.

Table 1-1 Hardware Requirements

Hardware	Windows	UNIX
Memory	128 MB	128 MB
Service Pack	NT 4.0-Service Pack 6 or above 2000-Service Pack 1 or above	N/A
Disk Space	500 MB	500 MB

Software Requirements

The following are software requirements for the FTP adapter:

• Operating System Requirements

• JRE Requirements

Operating System Requirements

Table 1-2 lists operating system requirements for the computer on which the FTP adapter is installed.

Table 1-2 Operating System Requirements

Operating System	Version
Windows NT	Version 4.0 with Service Pack 6 or above
Windows 2000	With Service Pack 1 or above
IBM AIX 5L	5.1 and 5.2 (64 bit)
HP Tru64	5.1a and 5.1b (64 bit)
HP-UX	11.0 and 11.11 (64 bit)
RedHat Linux	Advanced Server 2.1
Sun SPARC Solaris	8 and 9 (32 bit)

JRE Requirements

OracleAS InterConnect uses JRE 1.4.1 which is installed with its components.

Known Limitations

The FTP adapter has the following limitations:

• Does not support secure FTP server.

• Does not support file-filtering features.

• Can only receive from a single FTP or file endpoint.

• The sending endpoint and receiving endpoint are restricted to FTP and file endpoints.