Packaging provides a means to group a number of integrations and connectors together. This may be of our own integrations but, just as easily, it could be for a third-party set of capabilities. Ideally, the grouping will make some sort of logical sense (that is, a collection of related integrations, for example, integrating all the different aspects of Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle ERP Cloud).

The common use of packages is to facilitate the import and export of multiple elements, but it can be just as easily used to delete groups of items at once (so handle with care). If you have followed the book chapter by chapter then you will have noticed that all the integrations have had their integrations given package names using the pattern of ics.book.ch<X>, where <X> represents the chapter number.