Oracle Developer Connect portal is an integrated repository of all the SOAP Web Services provided by Oracle ERP cloud.
What is it ?
- A cloud developer portal that runs on your cloud instance and provides information about the specific set of services deployed to your cloud instance.
- Very useful resource to integrate or extend Oracle Cloud Applications and develop customized business solutions.
- Discover business object services, look up service endpoints and view metadata.
- Includes definitions for all SOAP-based web services that are marked for external use.
- Reflects the current service interface and includes patches as well as service data object customizations, if any.
What are the prerequisites ?
- To use the Developer Connect portal, your job role must have one of the following privileges -
FND_INTEGRATION_SPECIALIST_JOB
FND_APPLICATION_DEVELOPER_JOB ZCA_CUSTOMER_RELATIONSHIP_MANAGEMENT_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB.
- Alternatively, you can create a custom role with ATK_WEB_SERVICE_INFO_ACCESS_PRIV entitlement and then grant the custom role to desired user
What does it offer ?
- Searchable list of all the available web services.
- Quick access to complete URLs for the Service Endpoints as well as WSDL locations.
- Easy to UI with detailed information including service statuses and meaningful descriptions.
- Additional details on all related Service Operations, Service Data Objects and Sample payloads.
How to access ?
- In your ERP Cloud instance, Navigate to Tools > Developer Connect
- Search for the desired Web Service
- Locate Web Service Summary and WSDL
- Web Service Description Language (WSDL) - Describes structure of a web service. Provides location and the operations offered by a given service
Sample -
- Locate Web Service Operations
- Locate Web Service Payload details
- Locate Web Service Service Data Object structure
- XML Schema Definition (XSD)