Oracle E-Business Suite Adapter Features

Overview

Oracle E-Business Suite Adapter enables you to orchestrate discrete data into a meaningful business process and creates Web services for various interface types within Oracle E-Business Suite. It plays the role of service provider for Oracle E-Business Suite to allow seamless integration between business partners, processes, applications, and end users in heterogeneous environment.

Oracle E-Business Suite Adapter provides the following features which are further discussed in this chapter:

Support for Various Integration Interface Types

Oracle E-Business Suite Adapter acts as a highly flexible integration interface for Oracle E-Business Suite. It supports the following interface types for integrating with Oracle E-Business Suite applications:

Please note that Oracle E-Business Suite Adapter also supports the following custom integration interface types that are exposed by the Oracle E-Business Suite Module Browser, not by Oracle Integration Repository:

Support for Oracle Integration Repository

Oracle Integration Repository, an integral part of Oracle E-Business Suite, is a prebuilt catalog of information about the numerous public integration interfaces delivered with Oracle E-Business Suite. It provides a comprehensive view of the integration interfaces with details for Oracle E-Business Suite.

Oracle Integration Repository can only provide information about an integration interface that has been specifically annotated by the developer to make it public. Oracle E-Business Suite Adapter takes advantage of the annotations that have already been created to make the following integration interface types visible in the Oracle E-Business Suite Module Browser:

These integration interfaces are exposed as Web services, and are available for process orchestration through the Oracle BPEL Process Manager.

For more information about Oracle Integration Repository, see the Navigating Through Oracle Integration Repository section, Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway User's Guide. This guide is part of the Oracle E-Business Suite Documentation Library which can be accessed on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN).

Note: Oracle Integration Repository is integral part of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.0 and onwards.

Support for Custom Integration Interfaces in Various Versions of Oracle E-Business Suite

Oracle E-Business Suite Adapter leverages Integration Repository for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11.5.10 and Release 12 as the source of truth for the integration content.

Oracle E-Business Suite Adapter supports selecting custom integration interfaces from the Integration Repository for the following versions of Oracle E-Business Suite:

Important: Please note that the support for various versions of Oracle E-Business Suite has the following conditions:

From the business service creation and run-time perspectives, Oracle E-Business Suite Adapter supports custom PL/SQL APIs as far as the packages are available in the APPS schema. The Oracle E-Business Suite Module Browser can expose these custom PL/SQL APIs for integration purposes during the design time.

Support for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12

From Release 12, Oracle Integration Repository is shipped as part of the Oracle E-Business Suite which enables Oracle E-Business Suite Adapter to directly connect to the live database of Oracle Integration Repository querying for the public interfaces and then displaying the list of custom integration interfaces under the Other Interfaces > Custom Objects node in the Oracle E-Business Suite Module Browser.

Supporting Custom Integration Interfaces in Release 12

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Please note that Oracle E-Business Suite Adapter allows you to extract the Integration Repository data file from the live database you connect to Oracle E-Business Suite and create a local copy of the Integration Repository data file in your workplace. Next time when you look for public interfaces, the system can retrieve data from the cache in your workplace.

For detailed information about connecting to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, please refer to the Creating a Partner Link or Adding a Partner Link design-time task for each integration interface.

Support for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11.5.10

To support Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11.5.10, Oracle E-Business Suite Adapter provides the Integration Repository data file bundled as part of the product in xml format. During design time, Oracle E-Business Suite Adapter queries public interfaces from the native XML data file of the Integration Repository shipped with Adapter. Custom integration interfaces are queried directly from the live database and displayed under the Other Interfaces > Custom Objects node in the Module Browser.

Supporting Custom Integration Interfaces in Release 11.5.10

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High Availability

Oracle E-Business Suite Adapter supports high availability by completely relying on the functionality of the underlying Oracle Database Adapter and Oracle AQ Adapter to support the scenarios, such as Real Application Cluster (RAC) database configuration or clustering configuration.

For information about Oracle Database Adapter and Oracle AQ Adapter, see Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Technology Adapters.

Monitoring Oracle E-Business Suite Adapter Configurations

To effectively diagnose and troubleshoot potential configuration issues, Adapter configuration reports can be enabled and displayed in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Control.

For information about these configuration reports, see the Monitoring Oracle JCA Adapters chapter, Oracle Fusion Middleware Administering Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Business Process Management Suite.