Run-Time Components Packaged-Application Adapters

Introduction to Oracle JCA Adapters 1-17 BSE is deployed as a servlet within the Oracle WebLogic Server container during installation. BSE can be remotely located and need not be in the same container as the Oracle BPEL PM.

1.2.4 Oracle Adapter for Oracle Applications

Oracle Applications are built on a unified information architecture that consolidates data from Oracle and non-Oracle applications and enables a consistent definition of customers, suppliers, partners, and employees across the entire enterprise. This results in a suite of applications that can give you information, such as current performance metrics, financial ratios, profit and loss summaries. To connect Oracle Applications to non-Oracle applications, you use Oracle Adapter for Oracle Applications. Oracle Adapter for Oracle Applications provides comprehensive, bidirectional, multimodal, synchronous, and asynchronous connectivity to Oracle Applications. The adapter supports all modules of Oracle Applications in Release 12 and Release 11i including selecting custom integration interface types based on the version of Oracle E-Business Suite. The architecture of the Oracle Adapter for Oracle Applications is similar to Oracle technology adapters. For more information, see: ■ Oracle Fusion Middleware Adapter for Oracle Applications Users Guide ■ Oracle Fusion Middleware Programming Resource Adapters for Oracle WebLogic Server ■ Oracle Fusion Middleware Developers Guide for Oracle SOA Suite ■ Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide ■ Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Business Process Management Suite

1.3 Types of Oracle JCA Adapters Adapter Services

Adapters provide the following types of services to facilitate communication between applications: ■ Section 1.3.1, Request-Response Outbound Interaction Service ■ Section 1.3.2, Event Notification Inbound Interaction Service ■ Section 1.3.3, Metadata Service

1.3.1 Request-Response Outbound Interaction Service

Adapters support the synchronous request-response service. The adapters receive requests from adapter clients, translate these requests into the native back-end data format, and call the appropriate method in the back-end application. In addition, the request-response service retrieves the back-end response to the JCA Binding Component after performing reverse translation. In J2CA terminology, this type of service is also known as outbound interaction. Note: Adapter for Oracle Applications is also informally known as Oracle E-Business Suite Adapter