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Experience Oracle’s innovative Integration portfolio from end to end – March 18th, 2021 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM Pacific Time

Experience Oracle’s innovative Integration portfolio from end to end

Highlights

Learn about various key components of the Oracle Integration solution. Establish seamless connectivity with your Applications; On-prem, SaaS or in any cloud with our large portfolio of Adapters. Learn how you can leverage Business Accelerators to speed up your integrations by 10X. Empower your Business Owners with Integration Insights. Collaborate with your Trading Partners with B2B. Design, develop, deploy, manage and monetize your API’s. Extend your applications with Visual Builder.

Agenda

• Oracle Integration Overview
• Core Components
• Demonstration
• Customer Case Studies
• Summary

Schedule:  March 18th, 2021 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM Pacific Time

For details please visit the registration page here.

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Identity Propagation – VBCS > IC > Fusion Apps by Greg Mally

This blog was a collaborative effort between Greg Mally and Mike Muller of the A-Team.  There is an effort under way to provide example assets for this blog and when those assets are available, this blog will be updated with details on how to get to them.

One of the big challenges that Oracle Integration Cloud developers face is any outbound REST calls from Integration Cloud (IC) to Fusion Applications (FA) APIs require a user’s identity.  On the surface this seems pretty trivial because the IC REST connections allow for configuring the connection with basic authentication or OAuth 2 JSON Web Token (JWT). However, this configuration is tied to a single user and many use cases/flows require the identity of the person making the FA REST call due to access restrictions, security, auditing, etc. This blog will present a pattern that has been implemented to accomplish identity propagation from a client application, through IC, and to FA. Read the complete article here.

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On-demand Webinar: Maximize the Potential of Oracle Integration Cloud with FlexDeploy

Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) can help quickly and seamlessly integrate data, applications, and services and be a key enabler to your digital transformation process.
However, OIC does not include features for automated CI/CD, and deployment of OIC artifacts is a manual process, which means extra time, additional manpower, and management nightmares.
In this webinar, you will learn how FlexDeploy can eliminate these manual steps and reduce costs and risk by:

• Automating the build and deployment of OIC artifacts including Integrations, Connections, Lookups, and Libraries
• Adopting Continuous Integration (CI) and Release Pipelines
• Integrating tools like Git, SVN, Jira, SoapUI, Postman, and ServiceNow. Read the complete article here.

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Oracle SOA Modernization – Move and Improve Oracle SOA Suite – Webcast #1 Recap by Pat Shepherd

We held the first of 2 SOA Modernization webcasts and had a great turnout. I think this slide sums up the key points fairly well:

• Oracle is still supporting SOA Suite (including a new major release coming up) so your investment is protected
• You can use BYOL to leverage the license investment you already have in SOA Suite
• Moving to the Oracle Cloud (OIC) is relatively easy – we have OCS and Partners that can help you with the move
• We have bi-directional capabilities for OIC to discover and call SOA Suite integrations and Jdeveloper can do the same with OIC
• Once moved to the Cloud, you benefit from the advantages of OCI as well as the ability to start building new processes and innovating much faster
• You have the ability to start using new and unmatched services such as Autonomous Database, Blockchain, Digital Assistant, etc… driving even more innovation and creativity. Read the complete article here.

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Twilio Adapter – send SMS / WhatsApp from Oracle Integration by Niall Commiskey

A very simple example of sending an SMS / WhatsApp from OIC via Twilio. Before I begin…

Acknowledgements

Thanks to my colleague Pavan D. for providing me with the base .iar file and the impetus for writing this post.

Let’s Go

First step – get a Twilio Trial account from twilio.com Then get a trial number – this will be used to send messages. Read the complete article here

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Data Stitch Append for Complex Content Elements by Jorge Herreria

Summary

This blog explains how to do Append for Complex Elements in Data Stitch

In a nutshell:

In order to append instances into an unbounded (aka repeating) Complex Content Element, the instance has to be created in another variable, and then the instance can be appended into the variable having the unbounded complex content element.

What is Complex Content Element?

There are two types of complex types:

1. Complex Type Simple Content
2. Complex Type Complex Content. Read the complete article here.

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Invoking Oracle Functions from OIC by Niall Commiskey

Introduction From the Oracle website –

Oracle Cloud Functions is a serverless platform that lets developers create, run, and scale applications without managing any infrastructure. Functions integrate with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, platform services and SaaS applications. Because Functions is based on the open source Fn Project, developers can create applications that can be easily ported to other cloud and on-premises environments. Code based on Functions typically runs for short durations, and customers pay only for the resources they use.

These Functions can be written in a variety of languages – Java, Python, Node etc. You write and deploy the code, Oracle takes care of provisioning, scaling etc.

Think of blocks of code that generally do one thing, e.g. applying a discount to an order. These are stored as Docker images in a docker registry. They can be executed via CLI or HTTP request. We will be using the latter in our example. So how do Functions enhance the OIC experience?  Here’s one use case – Say you are porting SOA Composites to OIC and you make use of Java Embedding in your BPEL process. Where shall I put that code in OIC? Read the complete article here.

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OIC Backups by John Graves

This is a quick post for those who like to back up data, including OIC flows. The OIC REST API is pretty simple to use and follow, but it may not be obvious how to backup all your flows, so here is a script. NOTE: This is just for the integration flows an not for PCS or VBCS. There are two APIs used here: Retrieve Integrations and Export an Integration.

The high-level steps are:

1. Get count of how many integrations exist
2. Since you are limited to retrieving 100 flow details at a time:
   Loop for every 100 flows
3. Export each flow

If you’d like to use this script, just modify the top few lines to point to your instance of OIC and your AUTH string.  It’s pretty easy to get the AUTH string by just looking at the developer console when you login to OIC.

export SERVER_URL="https://…oraclecloud.com"
export AUTH="…"

Once the IAR is extracted, it is pretty easy to the expand it and check the code into GIT or DevCS. Read the complete article here.

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Protecting your OIC apis with OCI API Gateway by Niall Commiskey

OCI Services add a lot of value add to OIC. I have discussed OCI Functions Service and the OCI Streaming Service in previous posts. Today – my first working day of 2021 – it’s the turn of OCI API Gateway.

I’m sure you are all conversant with what API Gateway gives you. If not, check out the overview here  The Gateway setup was very simple and quick – I just followed the instructions – read the complete article here.

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