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Oracle® Application Server Integration InterConnect Adapter for FTP Installation and User's Guide
10g Release 2 (10.1.2)
B14073-02
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1 Introduction

This chapter provides an overview on how to use Oracle Application Server Integration InterConnect (OracleAS Integration InterConnect) Adapter for File Transfer Protocol (FTP adapter). It contains the following topics:

FTP Adapter Overview

The FTP adapter enables an FTP application to be integrated with other applications using OracleAS Integration InterConnect. The FTP adapter is useful in all Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) environments that use FTP. EAI is the integration of applications and business processes within the same company.

The FTP adapter can monitor incoming messages which are in the form of FTP files placed in a remote FTP server or on local file systems. The FTP adapter is also capable of sending messages to remote FTP servers by proxy host. The payload for this adapter can be XML data or D3L data.

shows the data flow of incoming messages, from remote FTP server/local file system to OracleAS Integration InterConnect.

Figure 1-1 Incoming Messages Data Flow

Incoming Messages Data Flow
Description of "Figure 1-1 Incoming Messages Data Flow"

Figure 1-2 shows the data flow of outgoing messages from OracleAS Integration InterConnect to the remote FTP Server.

Figure 1-2 Outgoing Messages Data Flow

Outgoing Message Data Flow
Description of "Figure 1-2 Outgoing Messages Data Flow"

FTP Adapter System Requirements

The following sections describe the FTP adapter system requirements:

Hardware Requirements

Table 1-1 lists the hardware requirements for installing the FTP adapter.

Table 1-1 Hardware Requirements

Hardware Windows UNIX

Disk Space

400 MB

400 MB

Memory

512 MB

512 MB


Software Requirements

The following sections describe the FTP adapter software requirements:

Operating System Requirements

Table 1-2 lists the operating system requirements for installing the FTP adapter.

Table 1-2 Operating System Requirements

Operating System Version

HP Tru64

HP Tru64 UNIX (Alpha) 5.1b

HP-UX

HP-UX (PA-RISC) 11.11, 11.23

IBM AIX

AIX (POWER) version 5.2

Linux (x86)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3.0

SuSE SLES8, SLES9

Sun SPARC Solaris

Sun SPARC Solaris 2.8 and 2.9

Microsoft Windows

Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 (SP3 or higher)


JRE Requirements

OracleAS Integration InterConnect uses Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4, which is installed with its components.

Known FTP Adapter Limitations

The FTP adapter has the following limitations: