Oracle Retail Enterprise Integration
There
is no one integration approach that addresses all criteria equally
well. Therefore, multiple approaches for integrating applications have
evolved over time. Oracle Retail has focused on three main integration
styles.
- Asynchronous JMS Pub/Sub Fire-and-Forget (Messaging-RIB)
- Request/Response (Web Services-RSB)
- Bulk Data (BDI)
New
in V16.0.21. The Retail
Integration Cloud Service (RICS). RICS
became a certified SaaS offering on the Oracle Cloud for
Industries (OCI) with the internal release of V16.0.0. With Release
V16.0.21 RICS is now a GA offering of the cloud
deployment of the full
Enterprise Integration Products (RIB, RSB, BDI) and out-of-box GA
application
integration flows. RICS also includes the new in 16.0.21 RIBforExt..
The 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.
RXM is now a RIB attached application - New
in V16.0.0
RXM is only a subscriber and subscribes to:
- Items
- ItemLoc
- Diff
- DiffGrp
- MerchHier
- Stores
- WH
New in
V16.0.21
- RIBforExt.
is a new RIB application component for 3rd Party integrations
to
the RIB in hybrid cloud topolgies. It deployment
time
configuratble.
The Retail Service Backbone (RSB)
Bulk
Data Integration (BDI) - New
in V16.0.0
Bulk Data Infrastructure
(BDI) is the new Oracle Retail Enterprise Integration Infrastructure
product designed to address the complexities of the movement of bulk
data between Oracle Retail applications and between Oracle Retail
Applications and 3rd Party applications.
BDI is designed to provide the bulk data integration to meet the modern
needs of cloud and premise movement of large data sets in the
deployments of the Oracle Retail applications and support both fully
on-premise configurations and on-cloud configurations in a hybrid
cloud-premise deployment.
Retail Business Objects (RBO)
The Oracle Retail
Business Objects (RBOs) are the names given to the logical
representation of Oracle Retail Business Entities and
transactions
about them. The definition of these object are 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.