15 Working with External Connections

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.

External Operations

External operations can be defined for Web service or database external connections. External operations are configured as either lookup or commit. Lookup operations read data from an external system. Commit operations write data to an external system. Database and Web service connections can support multiple operations. For more information, see External Commits and External Lookups.