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Oracle® Retail Service Backbone Developers Guide
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1 Getting Started with the RSB Developer Guide

This chapter provides an overview of types and styles of integration addressed by RSB and details of how to use this guide.

Introduction

RSB (Retail Service Backbone) is a web service based integration pattern implementation for Oracle Retail. RSB enables loose coupling between Oracle Retail and external applications and applications within Oracle Retail Suite. RSB is built on the top of Oracle Service Bus (OSB).

  • RSB provides automated OSB configurations for web service deployment and security configurations

  • RSB packages all of the Oracle Retail web services

  • RSB provides tooling for the full life cycle management of OSB hosted Web Services (Development, Compilation, Deployment and Upgrades) and automatically adds instrumentation for runtime operations monitoring (using Retail Integration Console application)

Developers often need to integrate third-party applications to Oracle Retail applications through RSB. This guide is intended to provide guidance on how to integrate third-party applications to RSB. This guide also provides insight to configure some of the RSB features to adapt to user requirements programmatically.

Types of Integrations Addressed by RSB

Oracle Retail uses three types of integration patterns:

  • Request Reply

  • Fire and Forget

  • Bulk Data

Technical Architecture

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