REST APIs and Soap Services (Inbound)

Use the REST APIs and SOAP services inbound integration option if some of your business processes require near real-time updates to your product master data.

For example, you'd use this integration option if your business needs to inactivate an item near real-time.

Key Features

• Perform data updates in real time (Inbound).
• Use with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) to perform near-real-time operations in Oracle Fusion Cloud Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) (Inbound/Outbound/Process Integration).

Best Practices

• Use this option only if you need to perform near real-time mode operations in Oracle Cloud PLM.
• To enhance performance:
  • Avoid querying master records using only child query criteria. For example, querying an item record based on a particular catalog-category or EFF attribute value.
  • See Overview of the Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing Integration Playbooks and the SCM sections that follow it.
• Use REST APIs wherever possible to capitalize on future improvements in REST technology.

Constraints

REST APIs can't fetch child entities at three or more levels together with the main record.

For example, in the Items context, Items BO is the first-level object while its child, item Revisions BO, is the second-level object. The revision-level attachment BO is the third-level object. Therefore, if, you want to fetch any object that's lower than the third level then, you perform a separate GET operation.