Direct Data Access In Fusion Cloud Applications
This article provides a summary of the options available for Direct Data Access in Fusion Cloud Applications. Let's start discussing the most common question - 'can I setup direct SQL access?' At the time of writing direct client connections to issue queries to the applications database are not possible for Oracle Cloud Applications, due to the robust security layers in place. As such tools like SQL Developer cannot be used. However, you can access most of the applications data through specific supported features and published API's. This article looks at these options. Web Services This is the recommended mechanism for getting, creating, updating and deleting small to medium volumes of records by remote systems. We've written about both the RESTful and SOAP services in this blog , plus they are documented in the Oracle API Catalog (for REST) and (for SOAP) in product-specific documentation books, such as the one for common objects . Angelo Santag...