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Implementing Oracle Integration Cloud Service

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Implementing Oracle Integration Cloud Service

Overview of this book

Discover how to use ICS to solve your integration needs with this Oracle Cloud book. Written by Oracle ACE Robert and ACE Associate Phil, you?ll learn how to deliver business value using ICS. ? The only guide to Integration Cloud Service on the market ? A comprehensive guide to building successful integrations on ICS ? Features practical examples and handy tools
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Implementing Oracle Integration Cloud Service
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

What kinds of agents exist?


ICS offers two types of agents, namely:

  • Connection Agent: Provides a means to connect to systems and data stores that are on-premises or in networks that need to be treated as if on-premises.

  • Execution Agent: Sometimes referred to as ICS on-premises or, occasionally, runtime agent. To perform the integration processes in a suitable location other than on the cloud server, for example, when the process starts on-premises and finishes on-premises, do we want to take the data to the cloud?

These agents have different capabilities and environment demands, although there are some basic needs, as you will see as we look through the details.

The essence of the two agents are to provide connectivity to systems running on-premises (or even another cloud) in the case of a connection agent, and to perform the act of executing integration processes on-premises (or someone else's cloud) for the execution agent.

In all of this, there is a downside to the agent model. One of the...