Oracle B2B 12c - Document Callouts: The Concept

One of the coolest new features of that Oracle B2B 12c brings is the document callout.

Callouts had already an important role on previous releases of Oracle B2B and they allow for execution of custom Java code on different steps of a message process.

On previous versions we had already 2 types of callouts:

• Transport or channel callouts: this type of callouts add the possibility to execute custom java code on the wire message, as soon as it is received on the channel on the inbound or before being sent for final delivery on the outbound
• Agreement callouts: this type of callouts add the possibility to execute custom java code on the application message (the XML representation of the message) , just before being sent to the backend on the inbound or immediately after being received from the backend on the outbound.

With the new document callout B2B brings the possibility of executing custom java code to convert your raw format message into XML or vice-versa replacing the default xEngine as your parsing tool.

This is particularly useful for those complex messages that can not be defined using the document editor.

Note: For those of you still using Oracle B2B 11g this feature (and many others) is available by installation of patch SOA bundle Patch 19190139 11.1.1.7.5 

On a future post I will show you how to use this cool new feature!

Stay tunned!