Oracle® Application Server Integration InterConnect Adapter for FTP Installation and User's Guide
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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:
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 1-2 shows the data flow of outgoing messages from OracleAS Integration InterConnect to the remote FTP Server.
The following sections describe the FTP adapter system requirements:
The following sections describe the FTP adapter software requirements:
Table 1-2 lists the operating system requirements for installing the FTP adapter.
Table 1-2 Operating System Requirements
Operating System | Version |
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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) |
OracleAS Integration InterConnect uses Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4, which is installed with its components.