Preface

Accessing Business Objects Using REST APIs describes the supported HTTP methods, HTTP headers, request URL parameters, media types, and other concepts of the REST APIs and the use cases that they support for making REST API calls in web applications created using visual development tools offered by Oracle.

Audience

This document is intended for developers who want to create and publish modern enterprise web applications using visual development tools, including using REST APIs generated by Oracle tooling to access the data of business objects exposed in the web application.

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