Introduction

The ODI Software Development Kit (SDK) provides a set of Java classes allowing developers to automate most ODI operations such as creating the repositories, importing or exporting objects, modifying interfaces or packages, as well as analyzing the repository content for reporting purposes. The SDK is also used behind the scenes for most tasks happening within the Oracle Data Integrator Studio.

You can leverage the ODI SDK Java classes in your Java or Groovy programs for many use cases, such as integrating ODI within another application, jump starting ODI projects by automating several development or administration tasks, generating interfaces dynamically based on configuration files, migrating existing code to ODI, and so on. The recipes in this chapter will help advanced developers to dive into the ODI SDK concepts.

The recipes in this chapter use Groovy as a scripting language to leverage the ODI Java Application Programming Interface (API). Groovy provides a syntax similar...