API Catalogs and Contracts
The Oracle Retail Business Object (BO) is the name given to the logical representation of an Oracle Retail Business Entity. The definition of that object is in the form of an XML Schema (XSD). The schema represents the common object definition for business concepts, such as account, supplier, purchase order, and item.
Within Oracle Retail, the messages that flow between the applications are defined statically through these XML schemas (XSDs). These Business Objects are the message payloads, or the basis of message payloads for the Oracle Retail integration products, such as the Oracle Retail Integration Bus (RIB), and RIB Integration Gateway Services (IGS).
All message-based integration flows, RIB and Services, at the Enterprise level or the individual application level all use a common set of governed Business Objects.
Bulk Data Infrastructure (BDI) is the Oracle Retail Enterprise Integration Infrastructure product designed to address the complexities of the movement of bulk data between Oracle Retail applications and between Oracle Retail Applications and 3rd Party applications.
BDI has a common set of governed objects as well, they are expressed as xml and ddl.
Each of the RIB and Web Service flows have an application API mapping report that details how the Business Object message is consumed by the application. The RIB flow and and Web Service flow for any given Business Object have the same API mapping report.
Index of Mapping Reports: (note that those with no changes will show the previous release)
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Note that there some products that are not in this release but may be present in the Integration Guide. The information about them is presented for reference purposes only.
