What is Oracle AIA

Application Integration Architecture:
  AIA =   The foundation for Adaptive Business Solutions product offerings. AIA includes a service-oriented application architecture and standards-based enterprise business objects and services. Each component includes development and extension methodologies, implementation best practices, and infrastructure extensions required to support the delivery of Oracle’s Process Integration Packs as prepackaged, upgradeable, and supported application product offerings.

AIA Components :

Industry Reference Models

Documented best-practice processes

Pre-defined standards based enterprise

business objects and services

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Process Integration Packs

-Pre-built integrated orchestration flows – 

Example: Order to Cash (Siebel to E-Business


 Suite)

-Extensible enterprise business objects and

services associated with Oracle Applications

-Methodology for building and extending 

Process Integration Packs and Industry 
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Reference Models

-Combination of Oracle Fusion Middleware,

 common object /service definitions, best 

practice designs, extension methodologies 

and life cycle management tool add-ons  

AIA Terminology:-

-Enterprise Business Service (EBS)‏

•These are application-agnostic web services

 that are used by calling aapplications to

interface with different applications. This helps

 the cross-application processes to be 

participating-application unaware. The EBM

 containing the canonical object is the payload 

of the enterprise service and contains business-

specific messages.

-Enterprise Business Object (EBO)‏

•A standard business data object definition 

used in the canonical data model. Enterprise

 business objects contain components that 

satisfy the requirements of business objects

 from participating application data models.

-Enterprise Business Message (EBM)‏

•The EBM is the payload that is paired to an 

EBS. The response returned by the EBS will 

also be an EBM.

-Enterprise Business Flow (EBF)‏

•A cross-functional BPEL flow is used to

 coordinate the flow of a single EBS operation

 that is complex, potentially long-lived, and 

spans multiple services. These flows only

 interact with EBSs to keep them agnostic of

 participating applications.

-Application Business Connector Service (ABC 

Service)‏

     The name for APIs developed to transform

 application business objects into enterprise 

business objects, and vice versa. 

Components of this service include the ABC implementation service and the ABC interface service.