Reasons to Build an Adapter

You can build application-specific adapters for your own use or make it available for others. Any Oracle Integration customer, partner, or independent software vendor can build an adapter. The location where your adapter appears in Oracle Integration varies, depending on your organization.

When an Oracle-provided adapter is not available for your purpose, you can either use a technology adapter (such as the REST Adapter, SOAP Adapter, FTP Adapter, or File Adapter), or you can build a custom adapter using the Rapid Adapter Builder.

The following table lists the different scenarios that may require building an adapter using the Rapid Adapter Builder.

Organization	Reasons to build an adapter
Oracle Integration customers	If you're an Oracle Integration customer, you can build an adapter for use within your organization. When you build an adapter that is tailored to your organization's business processes and requirements, you simplify the integration developers' experience during design time. For example, integration developers can create connections, configure endpoints, and map data without having to research and understand an application's APIs and security policies.
Oracle partners	A partner organization of Oracle can build adapters for third-party applications and make it available for any Oracle Integration customer to download, potentially for a fee. Oracle partners build adapters to better support their own customers. In addition, they can make their adapters available for any Oracle Integration customer and monetize the adapters, thereby creating new revenue streams.
Independent software vendors	Independent software vendors can build adapters for their own applications and make it available for any Oracle Integration customer to download, potentially for a fee. Independent software vendors typically build their own adapters to drive adoption of their software and improve the user experience of integrating with their applications. Vendors who monetize their adapters can also create new revenue streams.

Organization

Reasons to build an adapter

Oracle Integration customers

If you're an Oracle Integration customer, you can build an adapter for use within your organization.

When you build an adapter that is tailored to your organization's business processes and requirements, you simplify the integration developers' experience during design time. For example, integration developers can create connections, configure endpoints, and map data without having to research and understand an application's APIs and security policies.

Oracle partners

A partner organization of Oracle can build adapters for third-party applications and make it available for any Oracle Integration customer to download, potentially for a fee.

Oracle partners build adapters to better support their own customers. In addition, they can make their adapters available for any Oracle Integration customer and monetize the adapters, thereby creating new revenue streams.

Independent software vendors

Independent software vendors can build adapters for their own applications and make it available for any Oracle Integration customer to download, potentially for a fee.

Independent software vendors typically build their own adapters to drive adoption of their software and improve the user experience of integrating with their applications.

Vendors who monetize their adapters can also create new revenue streams.