RIB Context and Integration Models


A Context Model is a vehicle for communicating the systems and relationships between systems. The RIB  context and integration models depict the flows between the RIB attached applications and the business objects used in those flows.

An Integration Model shows the coupling between systems in the context of a perspective. The perspective shown is the RIB and the flows between all of the RIB attached applications.


A RRA Context Model is composed of the following:

  • A Drawing – depicts the systems involved, as well as the relationships between the systems
  • A Narrative – plain-English text that supports the drawing’s content by stating how the systems collaborate, and the systems’ responsibilities

RIB Models

RIB Narratives






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.