Adapters
Adapters facilitate a configurable integration among disparate business systems without worrying about underlying frameworks, tools, and technologies used in implementation of an individual business system. Use of adapters enable reusability of existing applications and systems, therefore, it increases ROI and provides agility for any organization.
The Oracle SOA Suite's adapters are designed and developed using the J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA). Oracle provides adapters to integrate various packaged applications, legacy applications, databases, middleware messaging systems, and web services.
BPEL processes may require working with multiple external resources. The following are some of the common use cases for BPEL processes to connect to as part of your application(s):
An external filesystem for retrieving data or writing data either over FTP or locally-mounted NFS
A database for Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) data
Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) for asynchronous or...
