Oracle Policy Automation and Siebel Innovation Pack 16 #3
This the third post in this Oracle Policy Automation and Siebel Innovation Pack 16 series, following on from the first two which dealt with the “design time” or “metadata” related operations CheckAlive and GetMetadata. If you want to catch up here are the links to the previous parts.
- Oracle Policy Automation and Siebel Innovation Pack 16 #1
- Oracle Policy Automation and Siebel Innovation Pack 16 #2
Both of those operations are fundamental to allowing the Oracle Policy Automation Hub to understand the availability of your data source and the structure thereof. Once they are operational, there are two main things to take into account. Firstly, the pattern of Workflow Process plus Inbound Web Service Operation is one that is maintained in every case, no matter what set of data you are retrieving. Secondly, the next stages of the Connection setup are common to many Siebel Integrations but there will be Oracle Policy Automation specifics : in the Load and Save operations you will handle getting data from Siebel to and Oracle Policy Automation Rulebase, and then returning any output to Siebel.
As in the previous cases the Oracle White Paper provides, in the associated Zip file, Workflow Processes and other objects that will be needed. As before, according to your business requirement and technical setup, you will need to edit those Objects in Siebel Tools and make further objects. Changes can be frustrating as you are likely going to be searching the Repository for variable names, or Object references, and sometimes you miss one or two.
In the examples shown in the video presentations and walk-through I have deliberately kept this Oracle Policy Automation and Siebel Innovation Pack 16 overview as simple as possible, for example by eliminating the processing of attachments, and by concentrating on the key steps in the Workflow Processes. So for today we will look at the Load operation. Because this operation will require testing, this post will look at setup and SOAP UI, and the following post will take that a step further and look at testing it with real Siebel data.
The Save (a.k.a Submit) operation is necessarily the most complex operation, dealing with the saving of data in Siebel but also the response back to Oracle Intelligent Advisor – which means taking a request to deal with a response and responding with what feels like a request!
Oracle Intelligent Advisor and Siebel Innovation Pack 16 Load And Submit Presentation
Oracle Intelligent Advisor and Siebel Innovation Pack 16 Load and Submit Testing in SOAP UI
Testing
In this topic, take your first steps to testing your Load and Submit in the SOAP UI utility. You can find more information about all the Connector API elements in the online help.
