Calling JD Edwards Orchestrations from Oracle Integration: Quickly and Easily by Prakash Masand

Background

JD Edwards orchestrations empowers army of citizen developers/business analyst resources to design business applications REST APIs without writing a single line of code. JD Edwards orchestrations exposes business process steps tied together graphically through the robust semantics of REST standards. JD Edwards orchestrations are great way to simplify, integrate and automate repeated tasks through digital technologies. JD Edwards orchestrations are executed at AIS Server however they are designed via a tool called as Orchestrator studio, with JD Edwards tools release 9.2.4.0, Orchestrator studio is also part of AIS Server that further simplifies deployment of Orchestrator studio. Orchestrator studio is a low code, no code tool that allows business analyst to leverage their knowledge of business applications and create the flow using series of application tasks/steps and expose them as a REST end point. As JD Edwards AIS/Orchestrations are gaining traction & momentum, it has become tool of choice for JD Edwards customers who are looking to Integrate JD Edwards with Cloud SaaS applications, PaaS services or any other on premise applications.

Sample Use Case

Consider you want to return all sales orders that are at a particular state lets say 540 i.e. Print Pick in JD Edwards Sales Order application. This means you need an REST end point that takes Sales Order state as an input with default being 540, and return in response array of JD Edwards sales orders. This information can be consumed to update any other third party applications with the state of the orders, or can be simply consumed from process application to show the list of the orders.

Basic Ingredients

1. JD Edwards Installation with below components (Latest and great EnterpriseOne Tools Release is recommended, with least being 9.2.1.x).
   1. Orchestrator Studio
   2. AIS Server. Read the complete article here.

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