Administering Native Integration Interfaces and Services

Overview

Various Oracle E-Business Suite application interface definitions shipped with Oracle Integration Repository are referred as native integration interfaces. This chapter describes how to transform these interface definitions into SOAP and REST web services through the user interface, and how to manage service lifecycle activities using a script.

Note that an Oracle E-Business Suite user who has the Integration Administrator role, hereafter referred as an integration administrator or the administrator, can manage each state of the services throughout the service life cycle as well as manage grants for them.

Administering SOAP Web Services Through Integration Repository

Interfaces Supported for SOAP Service Enablement

Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway supports the following interface types for SOAP-based service enablement:

Important: For interfaces that can be exposed as SOAP services, if the setup tasks for SOAP services are not performed, when viewing these interfaces through the Integration Repository, you may find a message indicating that Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway is not configured for SOAP services and refer to My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 1311068.1 for configuration details.

Integration Repository Page with Information About Configuring Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway

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In this release Java APIs for Forms are no longer serviceable interfaces and cannot be exposed as SOAP services. If you are planning to use this type of interfaces as web services, you are advised to use alternate serviceable interfaces, such as PL/SQL and Business Service Objects interfaces, which can be deployed as web services. Refer to My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 966982.1 for the suggested alternatives to the existing Java APIs for Forms services.

Managing SOAP Service Lifecycle Activities

The integration administrators can perform the following administrative tasks in managing each state of SOAP services throughout the entire service life cycle from the Integration Repository user interface:

Service Generation and Deployment Process Flow

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Note that the administrators can also manage SOAP service lifecycle activities and create security grants using an Ant script, see:

Managing Other Administrative Tasks for SOAP Services

Some administrative tasks are performed outside the Integration Repository user interface. These tasks are performed in the Administration tab including configuring log setups, and monitoring runtime inbound and outbound SOAP service invocations. See:

Generating SOAP Web Services

Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway allows users who have the Integration Administrator role or the Integration Developer role to transform interface definitions to SOAP services.

SOAP services can be generated with the support for synchronous or asynchronous interaction pattern, or both synchronous and asynchronous patterns. Before generating a service, the integration administrator or the integration developer must specify interaction pattern(s) for desired methods to be exposed as service operations. This can be achieved at the method level for one or more methods, or at the interface level for all methods.

Important: In this release, asynchronous operation is supported only in PL/SQL interfaces in enabling SOAP-based services.

By default, none of the interaction pattern would be selected. However, if your system is upgraded from a previous release, for backward compatibility, 'synchronous' pattern is selected for all the methods contained in a service.

For more information about synchronous and asynchronous operation patterns, see Synchronous and Asynchronous Web Services.

Generating Services

For interfaces with the support for SOAP services only, such as XML Gateway maps, service activities are managed in the Web Service region. For interfaces with the support for both REST and SOAP services, such as PL/SQL, Concurrent Programs, and Business Service Objects, these activities are managed in the SOAP Web Service tab of the interface details page.

Once a service is generated, the associated service artifacts are also generated for the selected methods. If only one method is selected, then only that selected method has a service artifact generated.

Note: It's important to note the following for PL/SQL based concurrent program:

Service Generation in the SOAP Web Service Tab with Overloaded Methods Highlighted

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Note: For overloaded functions, sequence number is added to the end of the overloaded method name. Each overloaded function can be uniquely selected and generated with your desired interaction pattern.

After Service Generation

The SOAP Web Service tab or the Web Service region contains the following information:

After service generation, if the interface definition has been changed or the selected interaction pattern information has been modified before service deployment, you can regenerate the service by clicking Regenerate. However, if interface definition is not changed, then regenerating the service will not change the service definition.

Click Reset to clear up the existing service artifact and change the Web Service Status field from 'Generated' to 'Not Generated'. See: Resetting SOAP Web Services.

To deploy the generated service, the administrator must select one desired authentication type in the Authentication Type region. The selected authentication type will be used to authenticate Oracle E-Business Suite users at runtime. For more information on deploying a service, see Deploying and Undeploying SOAP Web Services.

Displaying Generic XML Gateway Service Subregion for Generic XML Gateway Services

For XML Gateway interface type, if your system is upgraded from a previous release and if you have been using generic XML Gateway web services, the generic XML Gateway service information can be displayed by setting the FND: XML Gateway Map Generic Service profile value to 'Yes'.

In the Web Service region, click the Show Generic XML Gateway Service or Hide Generic XML Gateway Service link to display or close the Generic XML Gateway Service subregion for the selected XML Gateway interface.

For more information on setting profile options, see Setting Profile Options.

In addition to setting profile options, the administrator needs to perform additional setup tasks for generic XML Gateway services. For setup information, see Installing Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway, Release 12.2, My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 1311068.1 for details.

Web Service Region with the Generic XML Gateway Service Subregion Highlighted

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The Generic XML Gateway Service subregion contains the following fields:

To generate a web service:

  1. Log in to Oracle E-Business Suite as a user who has the Integration Administrator role. Select the Integrated SOA Gateway responsibility and the Integration Repository link.

  2. In the Integration Repository tab, select 'Interface Type' from the View By drop-down list.

  3. Expand an interface type node to locate your desired interface definition.

  4. Click the interface definition name link to open the interface details page.

  5. If this selected interface definition does not have service generated, specify at least one interaction pattern in the Interaction Pattern table. This can be done at the interface level or at the method level before clicking Generate in the Web Service region to generate the WSDL description.

    For interfaces that can be supported with both REST and SOAP services, Generate is located in the Service Operations region of the SOAP Web Service tab in the interface details page.

    After service generation, the interaction pattern table and the Interaction Pattern field are displayed with selected patterns for your interface.

    The Web Service Status field marked as 'Generated' also appears which indicates that this selected interface has WSDL description available.

  6. Click the View WSDL link to view the WSDL description.

  7. Click Regenerate to regenerate the WSDL description if necessary.

Deploying and Undeploying SOAP Web Services

If a SOAP service has been generated successfully, the administrator has the privilege to deploy the generated service in the Web Service region or the SOAP Web Service tab if the interface can be exposed as both SOAP and REST services.

XML Gateway Details Page with Web Service Region Highlighted

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Deploying Web Services with Authentication Types

Prior to deploying a SOAP web service, the administrator must first select one of the following authentication types:

Deployment with Active State

Once a SOAP web service has been successfully deployed, the newly-deployed service has 'Deployed with Active' service status in Oracle SOA Suite where Oracle E-Business Suite services can be used at runtime.

SOAP Web Service Tab with Deployed and Active Status Highlighted

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The SOAP Web Service tab or the Web Service region for an XML Gateway interface has the following changes:

For more information on service generation, see Generating SOAP Web Services.

For more information on supported authentication types, see Managing Web Service Security.

Reviewing Deployed WSDL

To view the deployed web service, click the View WSDL link. The following example shows the deployed WSDL code:

Note: The deployed WSDL shows the physical location of service endpoint where the service is hosted in the soa-infra in <soap:address location> element. Generated WSDL does not display the physical service endpoint, but with the following information:

<soap:address location="#NOT_DEPLOYED#" />

<definitions name="ECRDTLD" targetNamespace="http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/ec/soaprovider/concurrentprogram/ecrdtld/">
<documentation> 
 <abstractWSDL>
   http://<hostname>:<port>/soa-infra/services/default/<jndi_name>_CONCURRENTPROGRAM_ECRDTLD!1/ECRDTLD_soap.wsdl
</abstractWSDL>
</documentation>
<types>
   <schema elementFormDefault="qualified" targetNamespace=http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/ec/soaprovider/concurrentprogram/ecrdtld/">
  <include schemaLocation="http://<hostname>:<port>/soa-infra/services/default/<jndi_name>_CONCURRENTPROGRAM_ECRDTLD/ECRDTLD_Service/?XSD=APPS_ISG_CP_REQUEST_CP_SUBMIT.xsd"/> 
   </schema>
   <schema elementFormDefault="qualified" targetNamespace="http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/ec/soaprovider/concurrentprogram/ecrdtld/"> 
  <element name="SOAHeader">
    <complexType>
     <sequence>
      <element name=="Responsibility" minOccurs="0" type="string"/>
      <element name="RespApplication" minOccurs="0" type="string"/>
      <element name="SecurityGroup" minOccurs="0" type="string" /> 
      <element name="NLSLanguage" minOccurs="0" type="string" />
      <element name="Org_Id" minOccurs="0" type="string" /> 
     </sequence>
   </complexType>
  </element>
 </schema>
</types>
<message name="ECRDTLD_Input_Msg">
   <part name="header" element="tns1:SOAHeader"/>
   <part name="body" element="tns1:InputParameters"/>
</message>
<message name="ECRDTLD_Output_Msg">
   <part name="body" element="tns1:OutputParameters"/>
</message>
<portType name="ECRDTLD_PortType">
   <operation name="ECRDTLD">
     <input message="tns1:ECRDTLD_Input_Msg"/>
     <output message="tns1:ECRDTLD_Output_Msg"/>
   </operation>
 </portType>
<binding name="ECRDTLD_Binding" type="tns1:ECRDTLD_PortType">
  <soap:binding style="document" transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/>
  <operation name="ECRDTLD">
   <soap:operation soapAction="ECRDTLD"/>
     <input>
       <soap:header message="tns1:ECRDTLD_Input_Msg" part="header" use="literal"/>
       <oap:body use="literal" parts="body"/>
     </input>
     <output>
       <soap:body use="literal"/>
     </output>
   </operation>
  </binging>
  <service name="ECRDTLD_Service">
    <port name="ECRDTLD_Port" binding="tns1:ECRDTLD_Binding">
     <soap:address location="http://<hostname>:<port>/soa-infra/services/default/<jndi_name>_CONCURRENTPROGRAM_ECRDTLD/ECRDTLD_Service/"/>
   </port>
 </service>
</definitions>

To deploy or undeploy a web service:

  1. Log in to Oracle E-Business Suite as a user who has the Integration Administrator role. Select the Integrated SOA Gateway responsibility and the Integration Repository link.

  2. In the Integration Repository tab, select 'Interface Type' from the View By drop-down list.

  3. Expand an interface type node to locate your desired interface definition.

  4. Click the interface definition name link to open the interface details page.

  5. From the SOAP Web Service tab or the Web Service region of an XML Gateway interface, select one of the following authentication types:

    • Username Token

    • SAML Token (Sender Vouches)

  6. Click Deploy to deploy the service with active state to an Oracle SOA Suite WebLogic environment.

  7. Click the deployed View WSDL link to view the deployed WSDL description.

  8. Click Undeploy to undeploy the service.

  9. If a service has been deployed with active state, Retire appears letting you disable the active service so that it will no longer accept new requests.

  10. Click Reset to clear up the existing service artifact.

Resetting SOAP Web Services

Once an integration interface becomes a web service, the associated service artifact is also generated. No matter if the generated service has been deployed or not, you can clear up the service artifact and reset the web service status to its initial state - 'Not Generated' regardless of its current state. This action can be performed at any stage of service generation and deployment life cycle.

For example, an interface definition needs to be modified or has been changed. Instead of regenerating the service if it has not yet been deployed, or undeploying the service if it has been deployed, you can:

  1. Reset the service to clear up the existing service artifact.

  2. Modify the interface.

  3. Generate the service again.

For information on how to generate a web service for a given interface, see Generating SOAP Web Services.

SOAP Web Service Tab with Reset Button Highlighted

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To reset a web service:

  1. Log in to Oracle E-Business Suite as a user who has the Integration Administrator role. Select the Integrated SOA Gateway responsibility and the Integration Repository link.

  2. Click Search to open the main Search page.

  3. Enter appropriate search information such as product family, product, interface type, or business entity.

  4. Click Show More Search Options and select 'Deployed' or 'Generated' in the Web Service Status field.

  5. Locate the interface definition that match your search criteria from the result table.

  6. Click the interface definition name link to open the interface details page.

  7. In the Web Service region (or the SOAP Web Service tab for the interface with the support for both SOAP and REST services), click Reset to clear up the existing service artifact for the selected service. The service status is changed to 'Not Generated'.

Retiring SOAP Web Services

When a service has been successfully deployed to Oracle SOA Suite with active state, Retire appears allowing you to change the state of the deployed service from 'Active' to 'Retired'.

Note: This action also ensures that current running requests are finished while retiring the service.

Service with 'Retired' state means that the deployed service is no longer active for service invocation and will not accept new SOAP requests.

SOAP Web Service Tab with Retire Button Highlighted

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Please note that a service with 'Retire' state, the selected interaction pattern and authentication type information remains the same.

After retiring a deployed service, the SOAP Web Service tab for the interface with the support for both SOAP and REST services or the Web Service region has the following changes:

To retire a web service:

  1. Log in to Oracle E-Business Suite as a user who has the Integration Administrator role. Select the Integrated SOA Gateway responsibility and the Integration Repository link.

  2. Click Search to open the main Search page.

  3. Enter appropriate search information such as product family, product, interface type, or business entity.

  4. Click Show More Search Options and select 'Deployed' for the Web Service Status field.

  5. Locate the interface definition that match your search criteria from the result table.

  6. Click the interface definition name link to open the interface details page.

  7. In the SOAP Web Service tab (or in the Web Service region of an XML Gateway interface), click Retire if needed to retire the active deployed service.

Activating SOAP Web Services

After a service has been deployed with 'Retired' state, it is not available to participate in any web service activities at runtime. To bring it back to work and to be invoked by web service clients, you must change the 'Retired' state to 'Active'. This can be achieved by clicking Activate to take the retired service back to an active state again.

SOAP Web Service Tab with Retired Status and Activate Button Highlighted

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Activating a service will not change its service definition. That is, the selected interaction pattern and authentication type remain the same as they were before.

After activating a service, the following fields are changed in the SOAP Web Service tab of the selected interface (or in the Web Service region of an XML Gateway interface) :

To activate a retired web service:

  1. Log in to Oracle E-Business Suite as a user who has the Integration Administrator role. Select the Integrated SOA Gateway responsibility and the Integration Repository link.

  2. Click Search to open the main Search page.

  3. Enter appropriate search information such as product family, product, interface type, or business entity.

  4. Click Show More Search Options and select 'Deployed' for the Web Service Status field.

  5. Locate the interface definition that match your search criteria from the result table.

  6. Click the interface definition name link to open the interface details page.

  7. In the SOAP Web Service tab or the Web Service region, click Activate if available to activate the retired service.

Subscribing to Business Events

An integration administrator can find Subscribe in the business event interface details page which allows the administrator to subscribe to a selected business event and create an event subscription for that selected event.

Business Event Details Page with Subscribe Button Highlighted

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Internally, an event subscription is automatically created for that event with WF_BPEL_QAGENT as Out Agent. Once the event subscription has been successfully created, a confirmation message appears on the Business Event interface detail page.

To consume the business event message, you should register to dequeue the event from Advanced Queue WF_BPEL_Q. If a business event is enabled and if there is at least one subscriber registered to listen to the WF_BPEL_Q queue, then the event message will be enqueued in WF_EVENT_T structure to Advanced Queue WF_BPEL_Q.

Unsubscribing to Business Events

Once an event subscription has been successfully created, Unsubscribe appears instead. Clicking Unsubscribe removes the event subscription from the WF_BPEL_Q queue. A confirmation message also appears after the subscription has been successfully removed.

For more information on how to dequeue messages, see the Oracle Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide.

For more information about business events, see Managing Business Events, Oracle Workflow Developer's Guide.

To subscribe to a business event:

  1. Log in to Oracle E-Business Suite as a user who has the Integration Administrator role. Select the Integrated SOA Gateway responsibility and the Integration Repository link.

  2. In the Integration Repository tab, select 'Interface Type' from the View By drop-down list.

  3. Expand the Business Event interface type node to locate your desired event.

  4. Click the business event interface that you want to subscribe to it to open the Interface details page for the event.

  5. Click Subscribe to subscribe to the selected event. Internally, an event subscription is created with Out Agent as WF_BPEL_QAGENT. A confirmation message appears after the event subscription is successfully created.

    Remove the subscribed event by clicking Unsubscribe to remove or delete the event subscription if needed.

Managing Security Grants for SOAP Web Services Only

To protect application data from unauthorized access, Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway provides security grant feature allowing only authorized users to access certain methods in an API through Integration Repository.

In this release, XML Gateway (inbound) is the only interface type that can be exposed as SOAP services only. To manage user security for XML Gateway interfaces, you need to log in to Oracle XML Gateway user interface.

Note: For interfaces that can be exposed as REST services, security grants are managed in the Grants tab of the selected interface details page. For example, PL/SQL APIs, Concurrent Programs, and Business Service Objects can be exposed as both SOAP and REST services; Java Bean Services, Application Module Services, Open Interface Tables, and Open Interface Views can be exposed as REST services only.

Please note that when a method access permission is authorized to a grantee, if the selected method can be exposed as both SOAP and REST service operations, then this grants the permission to the associated SOAP and REST services simultaneously. For information on managing security grants in the Grants tab, see Managing Security Grants for SOAP and REST Web Services.

Managing XML Gateway User Security in the Trading Partner User Setup Form

For XML Gateway interfaces, user security is managed in the Oracle XML Gateway user interface through the Trading Partner User Setup form where the administrator needs to associate users with a trading partner. Only these authorized users can perform XML Gateway inbound transactions with the trading partner. Specifically, the administrator needs to:

For more information about trading partner user security, refer to Trading Partner Setup, XML Gateway Setup chapter, Oracle XML Gateway User's Guide.

Enabling Design-Time Log Configuration for SOAP Services

To troubleshoot any issues or exceptions encountered during service generation and deployment life cycle, users who have the Integration Administrator role can enable design-time log for an interface that can be exposed as a SOAP service.

If the design-time log is enabled for an interface with 'SOAP' service type, 'Enabled' is shown as the Log Configuration value in the SOAP Web Service tab. Otherwise, 'Disabled' is displayed instead.

If an interface can be exposed as both SOAP and REST services and that interface has the design-time log enabled for both 'SOAP' and 'REST' service types in two separate configurations, 'Enabled' can be shown in the SOAP Web Service tab and the REST Web Service tab.

SOAP Web Service Tab with Log Configuration 'Enabled' Highlighted

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Changing an Existing Log Configuration

To change the design-time log configuration for the selected interface, click Configure next to the Log Configuration field in the SOAP Web Service tab. The Log & Audit Setup Details page appears with the selected interface where the administrator can add a new log configuration or update an existing configuration.

Note: The Log & Audit Setup Details page can also be accessed by selecting the Administration > Configuration from the navigation menu.

For detailed information about how to configure log settings at the service type level of an interface, see Adding a New Configuration.

Viewing Design-Time Logs

If the design-time log is enabled for an interface with 'SOAP' service type, View Log appears in the SOAP Web Service tab allowing you to view both log messages and error messages if occurred during design-time activities. See Viewing Design-Time Logs for SOAP Services.

Viewing Design-Time Logs for SOAP Services

To effectively troubleshoot any issues or exceptions encountered at design time during each stage of service generation and deployment life cycle , error messages and activity information can be logged and viewed through the Log & Error Details page.

Note: These design-time activities include generating, deploying, retiring, resetting, and activating actions for SOAP services.

SOAP Web Service Tab with 'View Log' Highlighted

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For information on enabling the design-time log for an interface with a desired service type, see Adding a New Configuration.

Viewing Error and Log Details from the View Log Button

Click View Log to display the Log & Error Details page.

Log & Error Details Page with Log Details Region

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Viewing Error Details from the View Error Button

If the selected interface does not have the design-time log enabled for the 'SOAP' service type, and if any errors occurred during the design-time activities for the SOAP service, View Error appears instead allowing you to view only the error or exception messages displayed in the Error Details region.

Log & Error Details Page with Error Details Region

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For example, if the administrator receives errors or exceptions while trying to perform any actions at design time such as Generate, Deploy, Activate, Retire, or Reset for a SOAP service, these errors are recorded and displayed in the Error Details region even if the design-time log for the SOAP service type is not configured for the interface.

Note that the Log Details region will not appear in this page because the design-time log is not configured for the SOAP service type of the selected interface.

At runtime during the service invocation, if a service has the runtime log enabled, log messages can be viewed in Service Monitor against that instance. For information on viewing log messages through Service Monitor, see Viewing Service Processing Logs.

To view service development log messages:

  1. Log in to Oracle E-Business Suite as a user who has the Integration Administrator role. Select the Integrated SOA Gateway responsibility and the Integration Repository link.

  2. In the Integration Repository tab, select 'Interface Type' from the View By drop-down list.

  3. Expand an interface type node to locate your desired interface definition.

  4. Click the interface definition name link to open the interface details page.

  5. If the selected interface does not have the design-time log enabled for the 'SOAP' service type, View Error appears instead if errors occurred during the design-time activities.

    Click View Error to view the error details that occurred during design time.

  6. If the selected interface has the design-time log enabled for a desired service type, View Log appears in the SOAP Web Service tab for that interface.

    Click View Log to view the log and error details.

    Click Delete Log to delete all the logs listed in the table if needed.

    Click Export to export log list table to Microsoft Excel and save the records.

Administering REST Web Services Through Integration Repository

In addition to supporting SOAP-based service generation and deployment, Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway allows supported interface types to become REST-based services. REST services can be used for user-driven applications such as mobile, tablet, or handheld devices. In this release, PL/SQL APIs, Concurrent Programs, and Business Service Objects can be exposed as both SOAP and REST services; Java Bean Services, Application Module Services, Open Interface Tables, and Open Interface Views can be exposed as REST services only.

Note: Security services are also REST services; however, unlike other service-enabled interfaces, they are predefined and predeployed REST services from Oracle Application Object Library. This type of services provides security related features for mobile applications. See: Supporting Security Services - Predeployed REST Services.

REST services support only synchronous (request-response and request-only) interaction pattern and have a simplified service life cycle.

Simplified Service Life Cycle

REST services have a simplified service life cycle. The administrator can perform the following tasks in the REST Web Service tab to manage the REST service life cycle:

Note that REST services can be deployed and undeployed using the Ant script $JAVA_TOP/oracle/apps/fnd/isg/ant/isgDesigner.xml. See: Managing REST Service Lifecycle Activities Using an Ant Script.

Additionally, the administrator can manage security grants through the Grants tab of the interface details page and the Ant script. It assigns grants to specific users to access or invoke the deployed REST services. See: Managing Security Grants Using an Ant Script.

Supporting Security Services - Predeployed REST Services

In addition to exposing a supported interface as a REST service, Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway supports Oracle Application Object Library's Authentication and Authorization services as REST security services. Security services are used for mobile applications to validate or invalidate user credentials, initialize user sessions with application context, and authorize users.

Unlike other service-enabled interfaces requiring administrative actions on service development, security services are a set of predeployed REST services which can be invoked by all the Oracle E-Business Suite users.

Security services support token based authentication for invoking other REST services. With token based authentication, it is possible to authenticate a user once based on user name and password, and then authenticate the user in the consecutive REST requests using a security token (such as Oracle E-Business Suite user session ID). For more information about the REST service security, see REST Service Security.

To better understand each administrative task performed through the Integration Repository user interface, this section includes the following topics:

Managing Other Administrative Tasks for REST Services

Similar to managing SOAP service activities, administrators can perform additional tasks in the Administration tab to configure logging, and monitor runtime inbound and outbound REST service invocation messages. See:

Deploying REST Web Services

Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway allows the administrator to deploy interface definitions as REST services. These interfaces are PL/SQL APIs, Concurrent Programs, Business Service Objects, Java Bean Services, Application Module Services, Open Interface Tables, and Open Interface Views. Among these interfaces, only PL/SQL APIs, Concurrent Programs, and Business Service Objects can be exposed as both SOAP and REST services.

Deploying REST Services in the REST Web Service Tab

Before deploying a REST service, the administrator must perform the following tasks:

REST Service Security

All REST services are secured by the HTTP Basic Authentication or Security Token Authentication at the HTTP or HTTPS transport level. Before deploying an interface as a REST service, the administrator must ensure that at least one authentication type is selected for use in authenticating users who invoke the REST services.

Note: By default, both the HTTP Basic and Security Token authentication types are selected. The administrator can update the default selection to deploy a service with only one desired authentication type (HTTP Basic or Security Token) if needed.

Click Deploy to deploy the selected service operations to an Oracle E-Business Suite managed server for consumption.

After Service Deployment

Once the REST service has been successfully deployed, the REST Web Service tab has the following changes:

REST Web Service Tab with 'Deployed' Status

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Reviewing Deployed WADL

To view the deployed REST service WADL, click the View WADL link.

The following example shows the deployed WADL for the selected CREATE_INVOICE service operation contained in the PL/SQL API Invoice Creation (AR_INVOICE_API_PUB):

Note: 'Invoice' highlighted here is the service alias entered earlier prior to the service deployment. After the service is deployed, the specified alias name (Invoice) becomes part of the service endpoint in the .xsd schema file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?> 
<application xmlns:tns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/ar/soaprovider/plsql/rest/ar_invoice_api_pub/" xmlns="http://wadl.dev.java.net/2009/02"
xmlns:tns1="http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/ar/rest/ar/create_invoice/" name="AR_INVOICE_API_PUB" 
targetNamespace="http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/ar/soaprovider/plsql/rest/ar_invoice_api_pub/">
        <grammars>
                <include xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" href="http://<hostname>:<port>/webservices/rest/Invoice/?XSD=CREATE_INVOICE_SYNCH_TYPEDEF.xsd" /> 
        </grammars>
        <resources base="http://<hostname>:<port>/webservices/rest/Invoice/">
                <resource path="/create_invoice/">
                        <method id="CREATE_INVOICE" name="POST">
                                <request>
                                        <representation mediaType="application/xml" type="tns1:InputParameters" /> 
                                        <representation mediaType="application/json" type="tns1:InputParameters" /> 
                                </request>
                                <response>
                                        <representation mediaType="application/xml" type="tns1:OutputParameters" /> 
                                        <representation mediaType="application/json" type="tns1:OutputParameters" /> 
                                </response>
                        </method>
                </resource>
        </resources>
</application>

If the deployed REST service is an interface type of PL/SQL, Business Service Object, Java Bean Services, or Application Module Services, then both GET and POST can be shown as the supported methods. For example, the following WADL description shows two Java methods contained in the Employee Information service. The getAllReports operation is implemented with the GET method, and the getPersonInfo operation is implemented with both the POST and GET HTTP methods.

<xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"> 
<application name="EmployeeInfo" targetNamespace="http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/per/soaprovider/pojo/employeeinfo/"
 xmlns:tns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/per/soaprovider/pojo/employeeinfo/" 
 xmlns="http://wadl.dev.java.net/2009/02" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
 xmlns:tns1="http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/fnd/rest/empinfo/getallreports/" 
 xmlns:tns2="http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/fnd/rest/empinfo/getdirectreports/" 
 xmlns:tns3="http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/fnd/rest/empinfo/getpersoninfo/">

<grammars>
        ...
</grammars>
<resources base="http://<hostname>:<port>/webservices/rest/empinfo/">
  <resource path="/getAllReports/">
        <method id="getAllReports" name="GET">
                <request>
                          <param name="ctx_responsibility" type="xsd:string" style="query" required="false" />
           <param name="ctx_respapplication" type="xsd:string" style="query" required="false" />
                                <param name="ctx_securitygroup" type="xsd:string" style="query" required="false" />
                                <param name="ctx_nlslanguage" type="xsd:string" style="query" required="false" />
                                <param name="ctx_orgid" type="xsd:int" style="query" required="false" />
                        </request>
                        <response>
                                        <representation mediaType="application/xml" type="tns1:getAllReports_Output" /> 
                                        <representation mediaType="application/json" type="tns1:getAllReports_Output" /> 
                                </response>
                        </method>
        </resource> 
 ...
 <resource path="="/getPersonInfo/ {personId}/">
  <param name="personId" style="template" required="true" type="xsd:int" /> 
        <method id="getPersonInfo" name="GET">
                <request>
                          <param name="ctx_responsibility" type="xsd:string" style="query" required="false" />
           <param name="ctx_respapplication" type="xsd:string" style="query" required="false" />
                                <param name="ctx_securitygroup" type="xsd:string" style="query" required="false" />
                                <param name="ctx_nlslanguage" type="xsd:string" style="query" required="false" />
                                <param name="ctx_orgid" type="xsd:int" style="query" required="false" />
                        </request>
                        <response>
                                        <representation mediaType="application/xml" type="tns3:getPersonInfo_Output" /> 
                                        <representation mediaType="application/json" type="tns3:getPersonInfo_Output" /> 
                                </response>
                        </method>
                </resource> 
 <resource path="/getPersonInfo/">
                <method id="getPersonInfo" name="POST">
                                <request>
                                   <representation mediaType="application/xml" type="tns3:getPersonInfo_Input" /> 
                                        <representation mediaType="application/xml" type="tns3:getPersonInfo_Output" />   
                                </request>
                        <response>
                                   <representation mediaType="application/xml" type="tns3:getPersonInfo_Input" /> 
                                        <representation mediaType="application/xml" type="tns3:getPersonInfo_Output" />
           </response>
                        </method>
                </resource>
  </resource path>
</application>

If the deployed REST service is an open interface table with Inbound direction, then the service operation table displays all four HTTP methods. In the following WADL example for the AR Autoinvoice open interface table (associated concurrent program internal name RAXMTR), the RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL operation is implemented with all four HTTP methods, and the associated concurrent program SUBMIT_CP_RAXMTR is implemented with the POST method.

     <?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?>
<application name="RAXMTR" targetNamespace="http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/ar/rest/autoinvoice" xmlns="http://wadl.dev.java.net/2009/02" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:tns1="http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/ar/rest/autoinvoice/RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL">
        <grammars>
                <include href="http://<hostname>:<port>/webservices/rest/autoinvoice/?XSD=RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_post.xsd" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"/>
                <include href="http://<hostname>:<port>/webservices/rest/autoinvoice/?XSD=RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_get.xsd" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"/>
                <include href="http://<hostname>:<port>/webservices/rest/autoinvoice/?XSD=RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_put.xsd" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"/>
                <include href="http://<hostname>:<port>/webservices/rest/autoinvoice/?XSD=RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_delete.xsd" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"/>
                <include href="http://<hostname>:<port>/webservices/rest/autoinvoice/?XSD=SUBMIT_CP_RAXMTR_post.xsd" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"/>
        </grammars>
  <resources base="http://<hostname>:<port>/webservices/rest/autoinvoice/">
  <resource path="RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL/"> 
        <method id="RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_get" name="GET">
                <request>
                                <param name="ctx_responsibility" type="xsd:string" style="query" required="false"/>
                <param name="ctx_respapplication" type="xsd:string" style="query" required="false" />
                                <param name="ctx_securitygroup" type="xsd:string" style="query" required="false" />
                                <param name="ctx_nlslanguage" type="xsd:string" style="query" required="false" />
                                <param name="ctx_orgid" type="xsd:int" style="query" required="false" />
                                <param name="select" type="xsd:string" style="query" required="false"/>
                                <param name="filter" type="xsd:string" style="query" required="false"/>
                                <param name="sort" type="xsd:string" style="query" required="false"/>
                                <param name="offset" type="xsd:string" style="query" required="false"/>
                                <param name="limit" type="xsd:string" style="query" required="false"/>
                        </request>
                        <response>
                                <representation mediaType="application/xml" type="tns1:RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_Output"/> 
                                <representation mediaType="application/json" type="tns1:RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_Output" />
                                <representation mediaType="text/csv" type="tns1:RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_Output"/> 
                        </response>
        </method>
        <method id="RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_post" name="POST">
                   <request>
                                <representation mediaType="application/xml" type="tns1:RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_Input"/> 
                                <representation mediaType="application/json" type="tns1:RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_Input" />
                                <representation mediaType="text/csv" type="tns1:RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_Input"/>
                        </request>
                        <response>
                                <representation mediaType="application/xml" type="tns1:RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_Output"/> 
                                <representation mediaType="application/json" type="tns1:RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_Output" />
                                <representation mediaType="text/csv" type="tns1:RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_Output"/> 
                        </response>
        </method>
        <method id="RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_put" name="PUT">
                   <request>
                                <representation mediaType="application/xml" type="tns1:RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_Input"/> 
                                <representation mediaType="application/json" type="tns1:RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_Input" />
                                <representation mediaType="text/csv" type="tns1:RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_Input"/>
                        </request>
                        <response>
                                <representation mediaType="application/xml" type="tns1:RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_Output"/> 
                                <representation mediaType="application/json" type="tns1:RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_Output" />
                                <representation mediaType="text/csv" type="tns1:RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_Output"/> 
                        </response>
        </method>
        <method id="RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_delete" name="DELETE">
                   <request>
                                <param name="ctx_responsibility" type="xsd:string" style="query" required="false"/>
                <param name="ctx_respapplication" type="xsd:string" style="query" required="false" />
                                <param name="ctx_securitygroup" type="xsd:string" style="query" required="false" />
                                <param name="ctx_nlslanguage" type="xsd:string" style="query" required="false" />
                                <param name="ctx_orgid" type="xsd:int" style="query" required="false" />
                                <param name="filter" type="xsd:string" style="query" required="false"/>
                        </request>
                        <response>
                                <representation mediaType="application/xml" type="tns1:RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_Output"/> 
                                <representation mediaType="application/json" type="tns1:RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_Output" />
                                <representation mediaType="text/csv" type="tns1:RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL_Output"/> 
                        </response>
        </method>
 </resource> 
<resource path="SUBMIT_CP_RAXMTR/">
        <method id="SUBMIT_CP_RAXMTR_post" name="POST">
             <request>
                                <representation mediaType="application/xml" type="tns1:SUBMIT_CP_RAXMTR_Input"/> 
                                <representation mediaType="application/json" type="tns1:SUBMIT_CP_RAXMTR_Input" />
                                <representation mediaType="text/csv" type="tns1:SUBMIT_CP_RAXMTR_Input"/>
                        </request>
                        <response>
                                <representation mediaType="application/xml" type="tns1:SUBMIT_CP_RAXMTR_Output"/> 
                                <representation mediaType="application/json" type="tns1:SUBMIT_CP_RAXMTR_Output" />
                                <representation mediaType="text/csv" type="tns1:SUBMIT_CP_RAXMTR_Output"/> 
                        </response>
        </resource>
 </resources>
</application>

For more information about WADL description, see Reviewing WADL Element Details, Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway Developer's Guide.

To deploy a REST service:

  1. Log in to Oracle E-Business Suite as a user who has the Integration Administrator role. Select the Integrated SOA Gateway responsibility and the Integration Repository link.

  2. In the Integration Repository tab, select 'Interface Type' from the View By drop-down list.

  3. Expand an interface type node to locate your desired interface definition.

  4. Click the interface definition name link to open the interface details page.

  5. In the REST Web Service tab, enter the following information:

    • Service Alias: Specify service alias information.

    • In the Service Operations table, select one or more methods to be exposed as REST service operations.

      If the selected interface is an interface type of PL/SQL, Business Service Object, Java Bean Services, Application Module Services, Open Interface Tables, or Open Interface Views, select the desired HTTP method checkboxes for the methods to be exposed as REST service operations.

    • In the REST Service Security region, ensure that you select at least one authentication type.

  6. Click Deploy to deploy the service to an Oracle E-Business Suite environment.

  7. Click the deployed View WADL link to view the deployed WADL description.

Undeploying REST Web Services

Once a REST service has been successfully deployed, the Undeploy button appears in the REST Web Service tab. This allows the administrator to undeploy the service and at the same time to bring the service back to its initial state - 'Not Deployed'.

Interface Details Page with a Deployed REST Service

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Please note that when a service is undeployed, any existing or running service requests will be completed and no new request is honored. The associated service artifact will be removed from the system.

After a successful undeployment, 'Not Deployed' is shown in the REST Service Status field. The value of the service alias entered earlier now disappears which allows the administrator to enter it again before next deployment.

To undeploy a REST service:

  1. Log in to Oracle E-Business Suite as a user who has the Integration Administrator role. Select the Integrated SOA Gateway responsibility and the Integration Repository link.

  2. In the Integration Repository tab, select 'Interface Type' from the View By drop-down list.

  3. Expand an interface type node to locate your desired interface definition.

  4. Click the interface definition name link to open the interface details page.

  5. In the REST Web Service tab, click Undeploy to undeploy the service.

Managing Grants for Interfaces with Support for SOAP and REST Web Services

Users who have the Integration Administrator role can create grants to a specific user, users, or a group of users. Grants given to a user for specific services or operations are applicable for both SOAP and REST services.

Note: In this release, only PL/SQL APIs, Concurrent Programs, and Business Service Objects can be exposed as both SOAP and REST services. Java Bean Services, Application Module Services, Open Interface Tables, and Open Interface Views can be exposed as REST services only.

Managing Grants in the Grants Tab for PL/SQL APIs, Concurrent Programs, Business Service Objects, Java Bean Services, Application Module Services, Open Interface Tables, and Open Interface Views

With the exception of XML Gateway interfaces that the user security is managed in the XML Gateway user interface, security grants for all other interface types that can be exposed as web services are managed in the Grants tab of the interface details page. These interfaces are PL/SQL APIs, Concurrent Programs, Business Service Objects, Java Bean Services, Application Module Services, Open Interface Tables, and Open Interface Views.

For information on managing the user security for XML Gateway interfaces, see: Managing Security Grants for SOAP Web Services Only.

Interface Details Page with Grants Tab Highlighted

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Creating Security Grants

The administrator can select one or more procedures and functions or methods contained in the selected interface, and then click Create Grant. The Create Grants page is displayed where the administrator can grant the selected method access permissions to a user, user group, or all users.

Once a method access permission is authorized to a grantee, it grants the permission to access the associated SOAP and REST service operations simultaneously. For example, when a user (OPERATIONS) is authorized to have access permission on a method called 'Change User Name', regardless if the method has been exposed as a SOAP or REST service operation or not, the user OPERATIONS has the permission to access the 'Change User Name' operation of BOTH service types through the same grant.

Revoking Security Grants

The administrator can revoke security grants in the following ways:

Viewing Grant Details

Each grant contains information about grantee type, grantee name, and whether the grant is authorized through a direct grant (such as a specific user 'OPERATIONS') or other grant method (such as through a user group 'Marketing Group').

To view grant details, click the Grant icon for the method that you want to view. A pop-up window appears with the grant details.

In addition to the Grants tab, you can view the grant details for a desired method from the SOAP Web Service tab and the REST Web Service tab.

To create grants:

  1. Log in to Oracle E-Business Suite as a user who has the Integration Administrator role. Select the Integrated SOA Gateway responsibility and the Integration Repository link.

  2. In the Integration Repository tab, select 'Interface Type' from the View By drop-down list.

  3. Expand an interface type node and click an interface definition that can be exposed as a REST service or as both SOAP and REST services.

    The interface details page appears.

  4. In the Grants tab, select one or more procedure and function or method names for which you want to create grants.

  5. Click Create Grant. The Create Grants page appears.

  6. Select a grantee type:

    • Specific User

    • Group of Users

    • All Users

  7. If you select Specific User or Group of Users, specify the user or group for which to create the grants in the Grantee Name field.

  8. Click Create Grant.

    The interface details page reappears.

To view or revoke grants:

You can view and revoke existing grants directly in the methods list on the interface details page.

  1. Navigate to the selected interface that can be exposed as a REST service.

  2. To view grant details:

    In the Grants tab, the REST Web Service tab, or the SOAP Web Service tab if it appears, click the Grant icon for a given operation. A pop-up window appears allowing you to view the grant details for the selected operation.

  3. To revoke grants in the Grants tab:

    • To revoke common grants for all selected methods

      Select more than one method from the table and click Revoke Grant. The Revoke Grants page appears. Select one or more common grants from the table and click Revoke Grant.

    • To revoke grants for a single method

      Select a desired method from the table and then click Revoke Grant.

      Select one or more existing grants from the table and click Revoke Grant to revoke the grants.

Enabling Design-Time Log Configuration for REST Services

Users who have the Integration Administrator role can enable design-time log for an interface that can be exposed as a REST service. This action records any issues if encountered during the REST service deployment and undeployment activities.

If the design-time log is enabled for a REST service, 'Enabled' is shown as the Log Configuration value in the REST Web Service tab of that REST service. Otherwise, 'Disabled' is displayed instead. If the same REST service can also be exposed as a SOAP service and the 'SOAP' design-time log is also enabled in a separate configuration, then you can find 'Enabled' shown in both the SOAP Web Service tab and the REST Web Service tab.

REST Web Service Tab with Log Configuration 'Enabled'

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Changing Existing Log Configurations

To change the existing design-time log configuration for the selected REST interface, click Configure next to the Log Configuration field in the REST Web Service tab. The Log & Audit Setup Details page is displayed with the selected interface where the administrator can add a new log configuration or update an existing configuration.

Note: The Log & Audit Setup Details page can also be accessed by selecting the Administration > Configuration from the navigation menu.

For detailed information about how to configure log settings at the integration interface level, see Adding a New Configuration.

Viewing Design-Time Logs

If the design-time log is enabled for a REST service, View Log appears allowing you to view both log messages and error messages if occurred during the design-time activities. See Viewing Design-Time Logs for REST Services.

Viewing Design-Time Logs for REST Services

Similar to viewing the generate and deploy time logs for SOAP services, the administrator can view design-time logs if available for REST services to troubleshoot issues or exceptions encountered during each stage of REST service deployment lifecycle activities, such as deploy and undelploy actions.

At runtime during the service invocation, if a service has the runtime log enabled, log messages can be viewed in Service Monitor against that instance. For information on viewing log messages through Service Monitor, see Viewing Service Processing Logs.

Managing Service Life Cycle and Security Grants Using an Ant Script

In addition to managing service lifecycle activities and creating security grants through the Integration Repository user interface, administrators can use an Ant script to perform these tasks through the command line:

Managing SOAP Service Lifecycle Activities Using an Ant Script

An Ant script $JAVA_TOP/oracle/apps/fnd/isg/ant/isgDesigner.xml is used to implement the design-time activities for SOAP services such as generate, regenerate, deploy, undeploy, activate, retire, and reset services as well as to upgrade or postclone services from command line.

Note that $JAVA_TOP/oracle/apps/fnd/isg/ant/isgDesigner.xml is a multipurpose script. It can also be used to run the diagnostic tests or download the configuration file from the instance. The configuration file is the present state of instance in the view of Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway context. The same configuration file is sometimes referred as service descriptor file.

Note: When services are generated from command line, the settings selected from the Integration Repository user interface will take effect while generating the service artifacts. For example, if 'Asynchronous' interaction pattern is selected for a method contained in a PL/SQL interface, no matter if the service is generated from the UI or command line, only that selected single method has the associated artifact generated for asynchronous operation.

Usage of $JAVA_TOP/oracle/apps/fnd/isg/ant/isgDesigner.xml:

ant -f $JAVA_TOP/oracle/apps/fnd/isg/ant/isgDesigner.xml usage

Note: Script creates log file at the script location; hence, it is suggested to copy isgDesigner.xml to some <TEMP_DIRECTORY> and then use the script present in <TEMP_DIRECTORY>.

Usage Related to Design Activities

You can use the isgDesigner.xml script in one of the following ways:

Argument Description

Valid arguments for isgDesigner.xml are described as follows:

Usage Examples

Using the Script with an Input Descriptor File for SOAP Services

This section describes how to use a descriptor file with the required argument values to manage the design-time activities.

Example 1 - Generating and Deploying a PL/SQL Service with All Functions and Generating SOAP Services for a Concurrent Program and a Business Service Object

The following descriptor file for a PL/SQL API FND_USER_PKG provides required argument values highlighted in bold text, such as <SOAP_ACTIONS>, <POLICY>, and <ALL_FUNCTIONS/>, indicating that this is to generate SOAP service operations for all the functions contained in the API with synchronous pattern, and then deploy them with SAML Token authentication type.

<INTERFACE>
        <NAME>FND_USER_PKG</NAME>
        <TYPE>PLSQL</TYPE>
        <REST_ACTIONS>
        ...
        </REST_ACTIONS>
        <SOAP_ACTIONS>
                <RESET/>
                <GENERATE>
                <!-- GENERATES ALL FUNCTIONS WITH DEFAULT ITERACTION PATTERN "SYNC" FOR PLSQL-->
                        <ALL_FUNCTIONS/>
                </GENERATE>
                <!-- DEPLOYS WITH GIVEN POLICY "SAML" -->
                <DEPLOY>
                <POLICY>SAML</POLICY>
                </DEPLOY>
                <RETIRE/>
                <ACTIVATE/>
        </SOAP_ACTIONS>
</INTERFACE>

The following descriptor file is used for a concurrent program called INTERFACE5 to generate a SOAP service. Two functions, FUNCTION1 and FUNCTION2, contained in this interface are generated with the default synchronous pattern.

<INTERFACE>
        <NAME>INTERFACE5</NAME>
        <TYPE>CONCURRENTPROGRAM</TYPE> 
        <REST_ACTIONS>
        ...
        </REST_ACTIONS>
   <SOAP_ACTIONS>
                <RESET/>
                <GENERATE>
                        <FUNCTIONS_LIST>  
                                <FUNCTION>FUNCTION1</FUNCTION>
                                <FUNCTION>FUNCTION2</FUNCTION>
                        </FUNCTIONS_LIST>
                </GENERATE>
                <DEPLOY/>
                <RETIRE/>
                <ACTIVATE/>
        </SOAP_ACTIONS>
</INTERFACE>

A similar descriptor file can be used to generate a SOAP service for the business service object (BSO) interface type called INTERFACE6 when the <TYPE>SERVICEBEAN</TYPE> is used, shown as follows:

<INTERFACE>
        <NAME>INTERFACE6</NAME>
        <TYPE>SERVICEBEAN</TYPE> 
<REST_ACTIONS>
...
</REST_ACTIONS>
<SOAP_ACTIONS>
                <RESET/>
                <GENERATE>
                        <FUNCTIONS_LIST>  
                                <FUNCTION>FUNCTION1</FUNCTION>
                                <FUNCTION>FUNCTION2</FUNCTION>
                        </FUNCTIONS_LIST>
                </GENERATE>
                <DEPLOY/>
                <RETIRE/>
                <ACTIVATE/>
</SOAP_ACTIONS>
</INTERFACE>

PL/SQL APIs, Concurrent Programs, and Business Service Objects can be exposed as both SOAP and REST services; therefore, the same descriptor file can include required argument values for REST service design-time activities as well. See: Using the Script with an Input Descriptor File for REST Services.

Example 2 - Generating SOAP Service Operations with Synchronous, Asynchronous, or Both Synchronous and Asynchronous Patterns

In this example, a PL/SQL interface called INTERFACE1 contains six functions or operations. The descriptor file indicates the required task is just to generate SOAP services operations with various interaction patterns.

Specifically, FUNCTION1 and FUNCTION2 contained in the interface are generated with both synchronous and asynchronous patterns (<FUNCTIONS_LIST pattern="BOTH">), FUNCTION3 and FUNCTION4 are generated with asynchronous pattern (<FUNCTIONS_LIST pattern="ASYNC">), and FUNCTION5 and FUNCTION6 are generated with synchronous pattern (<FUNCTIONS_LIST pattern="SYNC">).

<INTERFACE>
        <NAME>INTERFACE1</NAME>
        <TYPE>PLSQL</TYPE>
        <REST_ACTIONS>
   ...
        </REST_ACTIONS>   
        <SOAP_ACTIONS>
                <RESET/>
                <GENERATE>
                        <!-- GENERATES GIVEN FUNCTIONS WITH ITERACTION PATTERN "BOTH" FOR PLSQL-->
                <FUNCTIONS_LIST pattern="BOTH">    
                                <FUNCTION>FUNCTION1</FUNCTION>
                                <FUNCTION>FUNCTION2</FUNCTION>
                        </FUNCTIONS_LIST>
                        <!-- GENERATES GIVEN FUNCTIONS WITH ITERACTION PATTERN "ASYNC" FOR PLSQL-->
                <FUNCTIONS_LIST pattern="ASYNC">   
                                <FUNCTION>FUNCTION3</FUNCTION>
                                <FUNCTION>FUNCTION4</FUNCTION>
                        </FUNCTIONS_LIST>
                        <!-- GENERATES GIVEN FUNCTIONS WITH ITERACTION PATTERN "SYNC" FOR PLSQL-->
                <FUNCTIONS_LIST pattern="SYNC">    
                                <FUNCTION>FUNCTION5</FUNCTION>
                                <FUNCTION>FUNCTION6</FUNCTION>
                </GENERATE>
                <DEPLOY/>
                <RETIRE/>
                <ACTIVATE/>
        </SOAP_ACTIONS>
</INTERFACE>

Example 3 - Generating a SOAP Service for XML Gateway Interface Type

The following example shows a descriptor file that is used to generate a SOAP service for the XML Gateway interface called INTERFACE7. In this example, all the functions contained in this interface are generated with SOAP service operations with the default synchronous pattern.

<INTERFACE>
        <NAME>INTERFACE7</NAME>
        <TYPE>XMLGATEWAY</TYPE> 
   <SOAP_ACTIONS>
                <RESET/>
                <GENERATE>
                        <ALL_FUNCTIONS/>
                </GENERATE>
                <DEPLOY/>
                <RETIRE/>
                <ACTIVATE/>
        </SOAP_ACTIONS>
</INTERFACE>

Other Usages

In addition to performing design time activities, this $JAVA_TOP/oracle/apps/fnd/isg/ant/isgDesigner.xml script can be used for the following purposes:

Deploying Generic XML Gateway Services

To deploy a generic XML Gateway service for the current environment, invoke this script with target deployGenericXMLG

ant -f $JAVA_TOP/oracle/apps/fnd/isg/ant/isgDesigner.xml deployGenericXMLG

For more information on deploying generic XML Gateway services, see Installing Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway, Release 12.2, My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 1311068.1 for details.

Obtaining Argument irepNames Usage Information

To know how to pass argument irepNames, invoke this script with target irepNamehelp

ant -f $JAVA_TOP/oracle/apps/fnd/isg/ant/isgDesigner.xml irepNamehelp

This prints the following information on console window:

Each interface name for the irepNames argument should be given in one of the following way:

Usage Example: FND_USER_PKG [{TESTUSERNAME:SYNC}{CHANGE_USER_NAME:ASYNC}],FND_GLOBAL

Note: Patterns supported here are described in the following:

interface_name[{function1:pattern1}{function2:pattern2}]

interface_name

All functions of the interface interface_name will be generated with old pattern. If the interface is a new API or has been reset, then all the functions will be generated with SYNC interaction pattern.

Running Diagnostic Tests

Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway provides a suite of diagnostic tests to help determine specific causes or issues with installation steps. When a test suite is run, multiple tests would be processed on both Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle SOA Suite environments for diagnosing issues on various categories.

To know how to run different diagnostic tests, invoke this script with diagnosticshelp

ant -f $JAVA_TOP/oracle/apps/fnd/isg/ant/isgDesigner.xml diagnosticshelp

Additionally, you can run different diagnostics through the backend script with different targets. For more information on how to run these diagnostic tests, see Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway Diagnostic Tests.

Managing REST Service Lifecycle Activities Using an Ant Script

Similar to SOAP services, the administrator can use an Ant script $JAVA_TOP/oracle/apps/fnd/isg/ant/isgDesigner.xml to implement the design-time activities for REST services such as deploy and undeploy services from command line.

Usage of $JAVA_TOP/oracle/apps/fnd/isg/ant/isgDesigner.xml:

ant -f $JAVA_TOP/oracle/apps/fnd/isg/ant/isgDesigner.xml usage

Note: Script creates log file at the script location; hence, it is suggested to copy isgDesigner.xml to some <TEMP_DIRECTORY> and then use the script present in <TEMP_DIRECTORY>.

Usage Related to Design Activities

You can use the isgDesigner.xml script in one of the following ways:

Argument Description

Valid arguments for isgDesigner.xml are described as follows:

Usage Examples

Using the Script with an Input Descriptor File for REST Services

This section describes how to use a descriptor file with the required argument values to manage the design-time activities for REST services.

Example 1 - Deploying Concurrent Programs as REST Service Operations

The following descriptor file for a concurrent program provides required argument values highlighted in bold text, such as <REST_ACTIONS>, <ALIAS>shipment</ALIAS>, <ALL_FUNCTIONS/>, and <POLICY>, to deploy the method contained in this WSHDSNO concurrent program as a REST service with the POST HTTP method and the HTTP Basic authentication type.

Note that by default Concurrent Programs can be exposed as REST services only with the POST HTTP method and synchronous interaction pattern. Therefore, the argument <ALL_FUNCTIONS/> works the same as the argument <ALL_FUNCTIONS pattern="SYNC"/>, <ALL_FUNCTIONS verb="POST"/>, or <ALL_FUNCTIONS pattern="SYNC" verb="POST"/> in the descriptor file.

<INTERFACE>
  <NAME>WSHDSNO</NAME>
  <TYPE>CONCURRENT</TYPE>
  <REST_ACTIONS>
     <DEPLOY>
       <ALIAS>shipment</ALIAS>
       <!-- GENERATES METHOD WITH DEFAULT VERB "POST" AND DEFAULT INTERACTION PATTERN "SYNC" FOR CONCURRENT PROGRAM-->
      <ALL_FUNCTIONS/>
     <POLICY>BASIC</POLICY>
    </DEPLOY>
    <UNDEPLOY/>
  </REST_ACTIONS>
  <SOAP_ACTIONS>
   ...
  </SOAP_ACTIONS>
</INTERFACE>

Because Concurrent Programs can be exposed as both SOAP and REST services, you can use the same descriptor file to include required argument values for the SOAP service design-time activities as well. See: Using the Script with an Input Descriptor File for SOAP Services.

Example 2 - Deploying PL/SQL APIs, Java Bean Services, Application Module Services, and Business Service Objects as REST Service Operations with Both the POST and GET HTTP Methods

This section explains the descriptor files for PL/SQL APIs, Java Bean Services, Application Module Services, and Business Service Objects REST services with the support for both the POST and GET methods.

Specifically, the REST service alias name is provided in the <ALIAS> argument. All service operations that need to be deployed with both the GET and POST HTTP methods are indicated in the argument <ALL_FUNCTIONS pattern="SYNC" verb="GET,POST"/>, as shown in the following samples:

Other Usages

The $JAVA_TOP/oracle/apps/fnd/isg/ant/isgDesigner.xml script is a multipurpose script. You can also use it to run the diagnostic tests or download the configuration file from the instance.

To manage lifecycle activities for SOAP services, see: Managing SOAP Service Lifecycle Activities Using An Ant Script.

Managing Security Grants Using an Ant Script

You can use the same isgDesigner.xml script to manage security grants in one of the following ways:

Argument Description

In addition to some common arguments, such as -DirepNames, -Dverbose, described earlier in Managing REST Service Lifecycle Activities Using An Ant Script, the following arguments are specifically used in isgDesigner.xml for managing security grants:

Using the Script with Arguments for the Grant

The following examples explain how to use the script with arguments to create and revoke security grants:

Using the Script with an Input Descriptor File for the Grant

This section describes how to use a descriptor file with the required argument values to manage security grants.

For file mode, you can provide grant information either using granteeKey or using granteeName and granteeSource. granteeName and granteeSource are not available when running the script in console mode.

For example, use the following descriptor file to:

<INTEGRATION_REPOSITORY>
  <INTERFACE>
   ...
    <GRANT_ACTIONS>
      <CREATE>
         <FUNCTIONS_LIST grantType="GLOBAL">
          <FUNCTION>PROG_APPL_ID</FUNCTION>
          <FUNCTION>CONC_LOGIN_ID</FUNCTION>
          <FUNCTION>LOGIN_ID</FUNCTION>
          <FUNCTION>APPS_INITIALIZE</FUNCTION>
         </FUNCTIONS_LIST>       
         <FUNCTIONS_LIST grantType="GROUP" granteeName="System Administration" granteeSource="FND_RESP">
          <FUNCTION>CONC_REQUEST_ID</FUNCTION>
         </FUNCTIONS_LIST>        
         <FUNCTIONS_LIST grantType="grantType="USER" granteeKey="OPERATIONS">
          <FUNCTION>CONC_REQUEST_ID</FUNCTION>
         </FUNCTIONS_LIST>  
      </CREATE>
      <REVOKE>
         <ALL_FUNCTIONS grantType="GLOBAL"/>
      </REVOKE>
    </GRANT_ACTIONS>   
  </INTERFACE>
</INTEGRATION_REPOSITORY>