Oracle Integration Cloud - OIC Basic Questions

 

1.       What are the Differences between Connection and Adaptor?

Connection is the Starting Point before creating any integration. This is the Place where you specify whether it is an Invoke or Trigger or Both. Connection Always Leverages an Adaptor; it could be an Application Specific or Technology Adaptor. For Instance, ERP cloud, Sales force, Workday adaptors are Application Specific whereas FTP, REST, SOAP are Technology Adaptors.

2.    What are Different Types of Integrations are Available?

       OIC – Gen2

                                                   i.      App Driven Orchestration

                                                 ii.      Scheduled Orchestration

                                               iii.      File Transfer

                                                iv.      Basic Routing

                                                 v.      Publish to OIC

                                                vi.      Subscribe to OIC

 

        OIC – Gen3

                                                   i.            App Driven Orchestration

                                                 ii.            Scheduled Orchestration

 

3.    How are Versions Handled in OIC

Versions syntax is major.minor.patch

Example: 01.00.0001 – Initial Version

                 01.01.0001-New Major Version

                 01.01.0002- New Patch Version

Creating and activating a new minor or patch version over an existing version will result in this new version of the integration be the active version. There can be only one version of an integration flow with same major version active at any time .Major versions can run Side by Side

4.    What is a package in the OIC?

Packages gives a convenient way to Group Similar kind of Integrations into one Package. This is very help full at the time of deployment. Instead of individual integrations deployment, we can simply deploy the respective package to target instance.

5.    What are Different Integration Actions available?

Using integration actions, you can view, Edit, Clone, and Create new Version,

Update Property Values*, Export, API Management*, Insight Designer*,

Tracing, Configure*

6.    What is the use of Update Property value Action?

This Action gives the developer an ability to update the design time values outside of the integration. For Instance, In an Email notification activity, you specify an email address to use in the "To" Field during run time which overrides the email address at the design-time. To put it Simply, This option enables you to configure the value without editing the integration design

7.    What is the Maximum integration properties can be added?

10

8.    In which state the Integration has to be in order to update the properties

App Driven Orchestration has to be in configured state to update Properties whereas Scheduled Integration supports even if it the integration is active.

9.    What are Agents?

When you need to integrate with an application behind firewall, you need to configure the agent on the Server where the application is installed .OIC Connectivity agent registers with oracle integration over SSL using the provided oracle integration credentials

10. Tell me more about agents.

No Ports are opened on the target system for communicating between the connectivity agent and OIC

All communications are secured using SSL

11. What is the use of Libraries?

OIC Libraries option will give you an ability to import external JavaScript library to perform any calculation or transformation of your data in the OIC. This comes to a rescue especially  when OIC inbuilt functions not able to cater your needs.

12. What are OIC Lookups?

Lookups help you to configure the static values and use them at run time, eliminates the need of hardcoding the same at the mapping level

13.    What are different tools available in OIC?

                                 i.            Application Integration

                               ii.            Process Automation

                             iii.            B2B

                              iv.            Visual Builder

                               v.            Integration Insights

14.    What are an Accelerators and Recipes?

Accelerators: They are two types.

1. Business accelerators...They provide an end to end Business process or a use case

2. Technical Accelerators –They provide a common technical solution like sending alert notification when integrations error or failure to email, Pager or Jira ..

Accelerators can be paid at times and are available in the Market place . All  the subsequent updated taken care by vendor .

 

Recipes are sample Templates that give you a Heard start... For Example you can use the Existing Recipe to integrate between Oracle ERP-Cloud and Amazon S3 and modify as per your requirements.