Preparation

Before attempting to design your adapter, you can prepare by reading related topics and gathering important information.

To prepare for designing an adapter, you may find it helpful to:

• Read About Adapters and Developing an Adapter.
• Familiarize yourself with the Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub user interface for creating the relevant object type—Load Set, Data Mart, Program, or Business Area—and read the corresponding chapter of the Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub Application Developer's Guide.
• You may want to create a Load Set, Data Mart, Program, or Business Area of each existing type in the user interface and compare each one to the Adapter Areas and Tech Types column values for the corresponding adapter type. You can see the actual settings for shipped Oracle LSH adapters through two views, CDR_ADAPTER_AREAS_V and CDR_TECH_TYPES_V.
• Read the chapter on execution in the Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub Application Developer's Guide and the chapter on services in the Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub System Administrator's Guide. The Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub System Administrator's Guide also has chapters on setting up security for some shipped adapters that show different ways of synchronizing security between Oracle LSH and external systems.
• Read the Reference Information section about APIs in the Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub Application Programming Interface Guide.
• Understand the external system for which you are creating an adapter.