Oracle Retail Service Backbone (RSB)


The Oracle Service Bus (OSB) platform is the integration infrastructure product at the core of the Oracle Retail Service Backbone (RSB) set of products. The Retail Service Backbone (RSB) is the product that defines the Oracle Retail Enterprise SOA Architecture and provides the infrastructure for the Services domain.

RSB products include pre-build Services and Flows and the integration API end points for all of the Oracle Retail Application’s web services and the Enterprise Solution web service integration points and contracts for external application to connect to as part of the Solution business processing.

To productize Oracle Retail web services for delivery to customers, the Oracle Retail Service Backbone (RSB) also delivers as product a set of security enablement tools and the tooling required to automate the creation and packaging of the configurations for OSB and to manage the full life cycle of web services (Compile, Deploy, Patch, Monitor).   

















Integration Styles


Oracle Retail Integration Bus (RIB)

The Oracle Retail Integration Bus (RIB) is a fully distributed integration infrastructure that implements messaging using Asynchronous JMS Pub/Sub Fire-and-Forget.

Oracle Retail Service Backbone (RSB)

Oracle Retail Service Backbone (RSB) is the productization of a set of Web Services, ESBs and Security tools that standardize the deployment and run time of Web Service flows within Oracle Retail Suite of applications.


Oracle Retail Common Business Objects


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.