A new integration connector has been introduced with the latest release of Oracle Process Cloud Service that enables Oracle Process Cloud Service applications to communicate directly with Oracle Integration Cloud Service.
This is a very important "architectural" feature since it encourages a solution topology that includes a virtualization layer, an integral "ingredient" in integrations to avoid point-to-point connections through decoupling and abstraction.
So let's see how you can use the "ICS Connector" to connect to ICS and consume a SOAP endpoint.
The use case that I will use in this blog post is quite simple; I will call a "Hello World" ICS Service from an Oracle Process Cloud Service process utilizing the "ICS Connector".
I've already created "Hello World" synchronous SOA composite. The implementation is very simple. I'm just using an assign component with the "concat" function to assign a static text ("Hello ") and the input to the output element of my "Hello World" service.
My "Hello World" SOA service is deployed to Oracle SOA Cloud Service (SOA CS).
Moreover I've already virtualized the above service on Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS) by first creating a SOAP connection to my SOA CS service and then creating a basic map data integration that uses the SOAP connection as a trigger and an invoker, creating a basic data mapper for both request and response messages.
So with the SOA service deployed on SOA CS and the virtualized service created on ICS, we are ready to create our PCS application.
Create a new application in Oracle Process Cloud Service, give it a name and file it under a space (I've named it "OracleICSIntegrationInPCSDemoApp" under my personal space).
Before creating our process, we need to create the actual integration to ICS. To do that navigate to "Integrations" and surprisingly enough you will notice that there are only two types of connectors, a "SOAP Connector" and a "REST Connector".
This is because you need to configure an "Integration Cloud Service" connection in Oracle PCS. Therefore from the Oracle PCS Home page, click on "Configure" and from the "Services" menu ensure that the "Platform" tab is selected and configure ICS by entering the URL and credentials to connect to your Oracle ICS instance. Ensure you test your connection before saving the configurations.
Go back to your application (via the "Develop Process" banner) and navigate to the "Integrations" section. You should now see the "ICS Integration" option available.
Click on the "Use ICS Integration" button and you should see a list of all your active ICS integrations. Locate and select your integration and click on "Next".
In the "Advanced" step you can configure the security for your calling service as well as some basic parameters such as the read timeout and the connection timeout.
My ICS Integration is using a username token so I've selected "APP Id - Username Token" from the "Security" drop down list.
Oracle PCS allows you to define keystores for storing your username and passwords. If you already created a keystore for your ICS service, select it from the list, otherwise select "[New Key]", give your keystore a name and supply the username and password that you use to connect to ICS and click "Create".
In your "Integrations" space you should have now your ICS integration. Please note that all metadata are inherited from ICS (for example, name, description, code and version).
To test my ICS integration I will create a simple process that starts with a form for the user to enter the service's request parameter, call the ICS service and again using the same web form to display the response from the service call.
So create a new process using the "Form" pattern.
Open the properties of the start component and define a title for your process and create a new web form.
On your web form, drag two input text components. Name the first name "Name" and the second one to "ServiceResponse". You can optionally disable the second text component since we will just use it as a placeholder for copying the service response.
Go back to your process and drag a Service component (from the System folder) between your start and end components. Rename it to "Invoke ICS Service" and go to its properties.
From the Implementation Type drop down select "Service Call" and click on the "Edit" button. This will popup the "Configure" window. Ensure that "ICS" is selected and click on the browse button to select your ICS connection.
Next we need to define the data that will be passed on to the service and the retrieve the data that will be returned back. To do that we will use the data association functionality. So From the service call component click on "Open Data Association".
Ensure that "Input" is selected and expand "Process Data", your web form's data object and drag the "name"element to the left pane of the data association editor. This should be mapped to your service's request element (in my case it's called "input").
Select "Output" and assign your service's response element (in my it's called "result") to your web form's "serviceResponse" element. The "Output" transformation should look like below.
Drag a submit human task just after your service call. Open it's properties and select the same form you've create and used in your start component.
We are now ready to test our process. Click on the play button just above your process to run an in-place execution of your process. On the start button click on the play button to open the "Play" window. Click on play to open your web form. Enter a value in your "name" field and "Submit" the form.
Please notice how PCS highlights the execution path of your instance process. You should see the token passing from the ICS Service call task and waiting at the human task component.
Click on the play button on the human task component and select "Launch Form" to open your web form. You should now see in your placeholder element the response from the service call.
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