Fundamentally, Oracle AIA supports two types of business integration, which are data integration and process integration. Oracle AIA Enterprise Business Services are used to build both data integration and process integration services. Hence, EBS components are categorized as two types of services:
Entity type EBS: The entity EBS is used to share business data as entity objects between enterprise business systems through Oracle SOA infrastructure. The entity EBS is also known as a Data Service because an Entity type EBS is based on CRUD operations EBS.
Process type EBS: The Process type EBS is used to execute a particular business activity or process between enterprise business systems through Oracle SOA infrastructure. It is also known as Activity Service EBS. These are based on complex operations (for example, process and order) defined in Business Processes (EBFs).
The following sections will explain each type of EBS in more detail.