API Caching with the Oracle API Platform by Phil Wilkins

We have been developing some advanced custom API policies for a client and in the process picked up on a few insights that didn’t even make into the API book. One of these policies is to provide an optimization around caching of API calls. The rest of this blog will talk about the tricks we have specifically applied to link an API Gateway to a caching mechanism and why.

Before I go into the details, I’d like to thank the Oracle product management team and particularly Glenn Mi at Oracle for their support getting through the deeper undocumented elements of the capabilities of the API Platform SDK.

Caching Options

Caching comes in may forms, and is motivated by varying reasons and not always the wanting the same behaviours. When getting into the subject of caching it is surprising how polarised people’s view points can be about which cache strategies are correct. The following diagram illustrates the diversity of caches that could appear in an end to solution. Read the complete article here.

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Application services governance with API Platform in the GDPR compliance example by Milomir Vojvodic

The European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) was intended to harmonize data protection laws across Europe and to strengthen individuals’ rights by giving people greater control over their personal information. The GDPR introduces a number of new obligations on controllers and processors and it imposes a range of stricter data protection requirements.

In a practical sense, organizations will have to work extensively to understand and be prepared for a variety of new responsibilities, including accountability, new personal data breach reporting obligations, and extended individuals’ rights.

As organizations face GDPR and continue to change processes and technical controls – it is important to consider how the concept of API management and Oracle’s products can help our customers with their GDPR compliance efforts. Read the complete article here.

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Oracle Integration Cloud UiPath Connector by Amy Simpson-Grange

Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) is an integration solution that simplifies connectivity between applications. It has 3 main components:

• Integration Cloud Service (ICS) —> this is the one we will look at
• Process Cloud Service (PCS)
• Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS)

To find out a bit more information about OIC, visit the following link: https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/integration-cloud-service/icsug/integrations.html

The purpose of this blog is to act as a follow on to my last post where we defined and connected a UiPath robot to UiPath Orchestrator (if you have not seen that yet then you can find it here: http://amysimpsongrange.com/uipath-creating-a-robot-in-orchestrator/)

This blog post will describe how you can use Oracle Integration Cloud’s built-in (!!!) connector to connect to your UiPath Orchestrator instance.

• Log into your Oracle Integration Cloud service console and click “Integrations” on the left navigation pane. This will lead you to the Integration Cloud Service (ICS) component of OIC.
• Once in ICS, select the “Connections” tab on the left navigation pane Read the complete article here.

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Rain or Shine, Oracle Integration Has You Covered free on-demand training

Use integrations and Visual Builder to create a web application that lets you get the latest weather forecast for any city, state, or zip code. In this learning path, you’ll use Oracle Integration to build a web application that uses an integration to interact with a REST API to get the weather forecast. With Oracle Integration, you have the power to build applications and quickly design integrations that connect applications into a seamless unified solution. In this learning path, you’ll build a solution to enable your users to view weather forecast for a given location. You want users to be able to enter the zip code or the name of a location and view details like what’s the local time, temperature, wind speed, and humidity level in that location. Let’s say you want to build something like this: Access the free on-demand training here.

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Welcoming OpenAPI 3.0 to Apiary by Kyle

I’m delighted to announce experimental support for OpenAPI 3.0 in Apiary. OpenAPI 3 is the new major version of the OpenAPI Specification, the successor to OpenAPI 2 (or formerly known as Swagger 2).

While we are not yet supporting all of the new features added OAS 3 such as callbacks and links , we’ve built a solid foundation of our parser which will allow us to incrementally roll out support for new features across our entire product line. Whether it be in our mock server, Dredd, our new documentation renderer or our API Style Guide product. Read the complete article here.

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Integrate SaaS Partner Webcast October 29th 2019

Attend our October edition of the PaaS Partner Community Webcast live on October 29^th 2019 16:30 CET.

Integration to applications is dramatically simplified by the use of application adapters that eliminate the complexity associated with web services and other connectivity methods. Simplify your integration to connect with virtually any application, service, or data store. Oracle offers a library of these adapters to provide you with a standardized way to rapidly connect the various protocols required by each application vendor. In addition to application connectors for CX, ERP, and HCM, there are database, productivity, social, RPA, and technology adapters. For more information please visit the website here.

Presenter: Jon Huang, Senior Director Product Management

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UK: +44 (0) 208 118 1001 & United States: +1 40 877 440 73

Schedule: Tuesday October 29^th 2019 16:30 CET (Berlin time)

Attend the Webcast

Take the opportunity to watch our community webcasts on-demand:

· Digital Assistant Update

· SOA Cloud Service

· PaaS Overview Webcast

· Process Cloud Service Update

· Integrate ERP Cloud

· Integrate HCM Cloud

For the latest information please visit Community Updates Wiki page (Community membership required).

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Integration with API less Systems – Leveraging RPA – Definitive Tip #10 by Phil Wilkins

Traditionally integrating with systems that don’t offer APIs or a shared storage mechanism (such as open tables) has been something of a headache often resulting in the ‘last mile’ of the integration process being manual. The manual steps often come because the cost of building and maintaining the means to integrate has not been cost effective or even an option (vendor has end of lifted a product, and not willing to add an integration mechanism).

The idea of ‘screen scraping’ isn’t new, but the cost of implementing such mechanisms has dropped and the new generation of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) tools such those provided by UiPath have made it significantly easier to integrate and automate UI driven processes. Whilst UI based integration isn’t recommended as a first option for integration, it shouldn’t be ruled out particularly as it gets easier and easier to generate and maintain the UI automation. There are several factors that need to be considered as to whether such an approach is appropriate, for example:

• the ability to run a robot to execute the UI interaction,
• the volume of data needing to be moved through the UI – you wont escape the latency issues that may exist with UI steps,
• is the UI being automated changing rapidly (is there enough cost benefit for automating). Read the complete article here.

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Cloud Integration Patterns Using Oracle PaaS by Abhay Kumar

Integration is a key aspect in any Cloud implementation. The integration usecases can be presented in many forms such as integrating cloud applications and on-premises applications in real-time or getting a data into an application from a file generated by a data-source or it can exposing APIs to an application which does not  expose web-services natively. This blog describes high-level integration patterns using Oracle’s PaaS services. This blog provides high-level design patterns backed by a real-world usecases. Some of these patterns may have an implementation reference that provides drill down details into the implementation of these patterns. However, some patterns may not have the implementation details as yet. Overall the objective of this blog provides the readers a high-level idea on what common patterns that have been implemented in the field. Read the complete article here.

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