Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are stored procedures that enable you to insert and update data in Oracle Applications. For example, using APIs, you can insert a customer record in Oracle Applications....

The Oracle AS Adapter for Oracle Applications is part of the BPEL PM 10.1.2 install and is available for both stand-alone as well as mid-tier installations. The Oracle as Adapter for Oracle Applications is a pure JCA 1.5 Resource Adapter and can be deployed on a J2EE container in managed mode. The Adapter Framework (AF) is used for the bidirectional integration of the JCA 1.5 resource adapter with BPEL Process Manager. Adapter FW is based on open standards and employs the Web Service Invocation Framework (WSIF) technology for exposing the underlying JCA Interactions as Web Services. Both the JCA Inbound and Outbound Interactions are exposed as WSDL with JCA bindings.

Configuring the Oracle Applications create customer Service

The Jdeveloper based design-time wizard is used for configuration of the Oracle AS Adapters and is launched from the BPEL Partner Link activity. WSDL files are created for both JCA Outbound (Request-Response service â BPEL invoke) and JCA Inbound (Event Notification â BPEL receive) Interactions. The following set of figures illustrates the configuration of the create customer service using the Jdeveloper tool.

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