Using Oracle Managed File Transfer (MFT) to Push Files to ICS for Processing by Sherwood Zern
February 7, 2018 Leave a comment
Introduction
In a previous article I discussed the use of the Enterprise Scheduler Service (ESS) to poll for files, on a scheduled basis, to read from MFT. In that article we discussed how to process many files that have been posted to the SFTP server. At the end of that article I mentioned the use of the push pattern for file processing.
This article will cover how to implement that push pattern with Managed-File Transfer (MFT) and the Integration Cloud Service (ICS). We’ll walk through the configuration of MFT, creating the connections in ICS, and developing the integration in ICS.
The following figure is a high-level diagram of this file-based integration using MFT, ICS, and an Oracle SaaS application.
Create the Integration Cloud Service Flow
This integration will be a basic integration with an orchestrated flow. The purpose is to demonstrate how the integration is invoked and the processing of the message as it enters the ICS application. For this implementation we only need to create two endpoints. The first is a SOAP connection that MFT will invoke, and the second connection will be to the MFT to write the file to an output directory.
The flow could include other endpoints but for this discussion additional endpoints will not add any benefits to understanding the push model.
Create the Connections
The first thing to do is the create the connections to the endpoints required for the integration. For this integration we will create two required connections.
- SOAP connection. This connection is what will be used by the MFT to trigger the integration as soon as the file arrives in the specified directory within the MFT (This will be covered in the MFT section of this article).
- SFTP connection: This connection will be used to write the file to an output directory within the FTP server. This second connection is only to demonstrate the flow and the processing of the file and then writing the file to an endpoint. This endpoint could have been any endpoint, to invoke another operation. For instance, we could have used the input file to invoke a REST, SOAP, or one of many other endpoints.
Let’s define the SOAP connection. Read the complete article here.
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