Oracle Fusion Middleware and the Oracle SOA Suite are the foundation of the Oracle Application and Process Integration solution. You cannot do application or process integration without Oracle Fusion Middleware. You can do application and process integration without the Oracle SOA Suite, but this would mean you are using the Oracle Java EE standards that Fusion Middleware is built on. By choosing to not use Oracle SOA Suite, you are building your own application and process integration from scratch using Java EE and are 'reinventing the wheel'. This is not much different then writing your own integration solution using flat files, FTP, and custom scripts.
InChapter 2, Oracle Tools and Products we introduced the Oracle SOA Suite and AIA, but did not go into detail on either solution. That is because we are going to cover them in detail here. You can use the Oracle SOA Suite without using AIA to integrate both Oracle Applications and...