Oracle Integration Cloud: Building Integrations That Survive Production · Module 0 · Orientation
The vocabulary, once
Lesson 4 of 175 · 2 min
Eight words, said plainly once. An INTEGRATION is one flow: something arrives or is scheduled, something happens, something is called. It is the unit you build, activate and monitor. A CONNECTION is a configured link to a system — the endpoint, the credentials, the security policy. It is defined once and reused by many integrations, which is why a wrong credential breaks several flows and why Module 3 spends a whole module on them. An ADAPTER is the TYPE of a connection: the Fusion adapter, the REST adapter, the file adapter, the database adapter. The adapter knows how to talk to that kind of system; the connection is one specific instance of it. A MAPPING is how data from one shape becomes another shape. Modules 6 and 7, and it is where most build time actually goes. ORCHESTRATION is a flow with more than one step — branches, loops, several…
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In this module: Module 0 · Orientation
- 1How this course works
- 2Getting an OIC instance
- 3What you should already know
- 4The vocabulary, once