There are many ways of integrating the E-Business Suite with third-party applications.  Neeraj Chauhan and Vijay Shanmugam, from our E-Business Suite Applications Technology Group, covered the latest options and integration architectures in their OpenWorld 2009 session:  
Architecture diagram showing registration of custom APIs with E-Business Suite EBS Integration Repository
Neeraj and Vijay discuss the following topics in detail:
  • Key integration challenges
  • Business Integration architecture
    • Oracle SOA Platform
    • Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA)
    • SOA Enablement of Oracle E-Business Suite
  • Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway
    • Integration Repository
    • Publishing custom interfaces to the Integration Repository
    • Walkthrough including custom PL/SQL API annotations
    • SOA Provider for web services
    • Business events in Integration Repository
    • Composite services in Integration Repository
    • SOA Monitor
    • Integration interfaces and services
    • Service invocation framework
  • Oracle E-Business Suite Adapter
    • SOA principles for the EBS Adapter
    • Integration lifecycle
    • Secured connections
    • Function security and authorization
    • Application context
    • Global transactions
    • Customization support through PL/SQL APIs, custom business events
  • Business use cases
  • Roadmap
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