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Application administrators can define and configure common connections to external file systems, databases, and Web services. Imports, exports and books can share file and database connections to minimize maintenance of connectivity information. Database and Web service connections can be configured with external operations to lookup data in an external system or commit data changes to an external system. External connections enable the application server to directly access, read, or write data to these resources.
Note: | You must set up external resources before defining external connections. |