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About the RESTFul Web Services

The Oracle Billing Insight provides a RESTFul Web Services programmatic interface that system integrators can use to integrate back-office systems with the Oracle Billing Insight applications and database.

The RESTFul Web Services:

• Provides hundreds of APIs to cover majority of functionality provided in the online Self-Service and Assisted Service applications.
• Can be extended.
• Provides outbound Web services.
• Can trigger plug-ins to update external systems.
• Performs token-based authentication with the same authorization rules used online.
• Is locale-aware.
• Based on JAX-RS specification with Jersey Implementation (version 1.14).

For information about using Web services with Oracle Billing Insight, see Web Services Reference for Oracle Billing Insight.