1 Web service configuration

• Overview
  Using the Oracle Empirica Topics web service, you can integrate your proprietary application with Oracle Empirica Topics for users to attach artifacts from your application to new or existing topics or actions.
• Configuring users
  The Oracle Empirica Topics web service acts on behalf of your application’s end users. Any of your application’s end users that are accessing topics through your application must also be provisioned with the same username and the appropriate Oracle Empirica Topics permissions and work teams on the Oracle Empirica Signal server.
• Security
  The Empirica Topics REST API supports two authentication methods, Basic and oAUTH 2.0. For cloud installations, the service is configured for use with oAUTH only using IDCS as the token provider.
• Connecting to the Oracle Empirica Topics web service
  To connect your application to the Oracle Empirica Topics web service, you need to set up web service properties in your code.