There are many ways of getting information into and out of the E-Business Suite. Until recently, however, these have been documented in a wild assortment of different places, including product-specific Apps manuals, the Electronic Technical Reference Manual (eTRM), and other unlikely sources. If you’ve been subjected to the dubious pleasure of sifting through
our documentation in search of APIs and web services, this article should come as welcome news.
The new Oracle Integration Repository for the E-Business Suite pulls all of those sources into a single place… at last. Initially intended to catalog service endpoints available via our service-oriented architecture, this repository has since grown into a comprehensive reference for all of the E-Business Suite’s business service interfaces.
You can browse the repository by product family, drilling down into specific modules:
Once you drill into a specific API, there’s a concise list of the details you’d expect, including function names, parameters, rules, and so on:
Looking Ahead to Release 12
The Release 11i version of the repository is available online only. In Release 12, it’s expected that the Integration Repository will be part of your Rapid Install. As your instance is patched, the repository will automatically be updated with content appropriate for the precise revisions of interfaces in your environment.
July 13 Update: We will also host an online version of the Integration Repository for Release 12, as well.
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