An Oracle application needs to be integrated with multiple technologies. Thus, Oracle Integration Cloud adapters are the solutions for integrating various tools and technologies with an application. In this blog, we will briefly explain OIC Adapters and their applications with the following topics.
- What is Oracle Integration Cloud?
- What are OIC Adapters?
- Advantages of oracle integration cloud adapters
- Types of oracle oic adapters
- Conclusion
What is Oracle Integration Cloud?
OIC (Oracle Integration Cloud) refers to the cloud-based integration between various application and services. Oracle offers a combination of prebuilt connectivity to on-premises and SaaS applications. It allows integrating multiple technologies with the oracle cloud applications, resulting in better application management and more features. It also helps in gaining insights into the business, automate the process and create visual applications. In Oracle, there are countless OIC Adapter that can be used for cloud integration.
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What are OIC Adapters?
The word Adapter generally means something that adapts or converts incompatible information into compatible information for the end-users. Adapters in the cloud is a program that controls the transfer of information between users and a cloud. In general, Oracle adapters are ready to use and pre-built block of code for the specific technology. Oracle Adapters allows connectivity and integration of the cloud with oracle applications. It supports various integration interface types like SQL API, Open Interface Table, XML Gateway, Business Gateway, E-Commerce Gateway and many more.
Also Read: Oracle Cloud Connect.
Advantages of OIC Adapters
Oracle Integration Adapters has a lot of advantages in Oracle Applications, and some of the key features of OIC adapters are as follows:
- Allows integrating various oracle and third-party technologies.
- Supports the widest range of integration types.
- Works under the securely configured connection between Oracle Applications and Oracle Fusion Middleware using authentication with Username and password.
- It leverages Oracle User Management function security to allow only authorized users to access and execute APIs.
- Supports Multiple Organization Access Control (MOAC) and multiple languages based on the application context concept.
- It supports the global transaction control implementing a two-phase commit by leveraging the underlying JCA standards compliant framework.
- Adapters support multiple versions of the E-business suite from the same instance of adapter at design time.
Also Read: Oracle Integration Cloud Insight.
Types of Oracle OIC Adapters
Various types of adapters can be used in Oracle Cloud. I have listed down only a few of the Oracle adapter categories and a brief introduction of them. It will help you to get an idea of Adapters in OIC and their uses.
Technology Adapters
The technology adapters allow the integration of various useful technologies in an oracle cloud application. Some of the technology adapters integrated with the Oracle cloud are Apache Kafka Adapter, AS2 Adapter, File Adapter, FTP Adapter, My SQL Adapter, Microsoft SQL Server Adapter, REST Adapter, SOAP Adapter and many more. Below is a brief explanation of the REST Adapter and SOAP Adapter that is most commonly used.
- REST Adapter – The REST (Representational State Transfer) Adapter is one of the most used adapters in Oracle Integration Cloud. It can expose integrations as REST APIs by configuring the REST Adapter connection as a trigger. It allows configuring multiple operations entry points with the different resource URI(Uniform Resource Identifier) and HTTP actions. When configured the connection as a trigger, it ensures incoming message, structured message and the JSON attachments does not exceed the size of 10 MB, 10 MB and 1 GB respectively.
- SOAP Adapter – The SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) Adapter consume external SOAP API for messaging protocols in Oracle Integration Cloud. Message received from the integration is passed as the payload to an external SOAP endpoint by the SOAP Adapter. When configured as a trigger, it can ensure the incoming structured payload (XML) and unstructured payload (MTOM) from a client does not exceed the size of 10 MB and 512 MB respectively.
HCM/HRMS Adapters
The HCM (Human Capital Management) or HRMS (Human Resource Management Systems) is an adapter category that enables customers to integrate their on-premises or SaaS applications with the Oracle cloud. It enables access and management of data or employee records using Oracle E-Business suite connectors. The key features of the HCM/HRMS adapter category are to allow bulk uploading and maintaining data in the cloud with inbuilt standard error handling capabilities. Some examples of the HCM/HRMS Adapters are Oracle HCM Cloud Adapter, Oracle Talent Acquisition Cloud Adapter, SAP SuccessFactors Adapters and many more.
Oracle Application Adapters
Application adapters allow virtual connection to application, service or store. It simplified integration by eliminating the complexity associated with web services and connectivity methods. Oracle provides a comprehensive library to connect the various protocols required by each application vendor. Some examples of Application adapters includes Oracle Netsuite Adapter, Oracle Service Cloud Adapter, PayPal Adapter, Salesforce Adapter, SAP Commerce Cloud Adapter, Shopify Adapter and many more.
Database Adapters
The Oracle Database Adapter uses the on-premises connectivity agent to integrate the Oracle database behind the firewall of your on-premises environment. It allows to execution of SQL queries or stored procedures in the Oracle database. The key features of these adapters are the ability to create, update and manage the database. Some database adapter is IBM DB2 Adapter, Microsoft SQL Server Adapter, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW) Adapter, Oracle Database Adapter and many more.
SOA Connectivity Adapters
SOA is a Service-Oriented Architecture where the application makes use of services available in the network. It leads to advantages like availability, reliability, scalability, service reusability, easy maintenance and platform independence. The SOA Connectivity adapter, like Oracle SOA Suite Adapter, allows attaining the SOA architecture in a cloud.
Social/Productivity Adapters
The Social/Productivity adapter category integrates various social & productive platforms like Gmail, Facebook, etc. Some examples of Social/Productivity adapters are Adobe eSign Adapter, Evernote Adapter, Facebook Adapter, Gmail Adapter, Google Calendar Adapter, Linkedin Adapter, Slack Adapter, Twitter Adapter and many more.
E-Commerce Adapters
E-Commerce is the service of purchasing goods by transferring money via the internet. Ecom is widely adopted by users in the present and upcoming modern era. The Oracle E-commerce Adapters like Oracle Commerce Cloud Adapter, PayPal Adapter, SAP Commerce Cloud Adapter and Shopify Adapter integrates with Oracle Application to fulfil the need of E-Commerce service.
Conclusion
Oracle Adapters are very useful for integrating various technologies in Oracle application. It is a prebuilt block that is ready to use in an Oracle application. This blog covered the introduction to Oracle cloud and oracle integration adapters. And, also covered the various categories of the adapter with their advantages.
References
- Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) For Beginners Overview
- 1Z0-1042-21 Oracle Cloud Platform Application Integration 2021 Specialist
- OIC Step By Step Activity Guides/Hands-On Lab Exercise
- Oracle Integration Cloud (ICS, PCS, VBCS) Console Walkthrough
- Create OIC Instance: Step-by-Step
- OIC vs SOA CS
- SOAP vs REST API’s
- Process large files in OIC
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