Get metadata for Oracle E-Business Suite operations in Visual Studio
The Microsoft BizTalk Adapter for Oracle E-Business Suite provides three Visual Studio components that you can use to help you develop solutions using the adapter:
Consume Adapter Service BizTalk Project Add-in
Add Adapter Metadata Wizard
Add Adapter Service Reference Visual Studio Plug-in
Adapter clients must use these components to connect to Oracle E-Business Suite, and then generate metadata for the operations they want to perform. All these Visual Studio components simplify development by:
Providing a Microsoft Windows interface through which you can browse and search for operations that you want to use in your solution.
Retrieving metadata exposed by the adapter for these target operations.
Converting that metadata, which is expressed as a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) document by the adapter, into a form that you can use in your solution (XSD message schemas for BizTalk projects or a .NET object representation of a service contract for the WCF service model) and adding it to your project.
This section provides instructions about how to use the Consume Adapter Service Add-in, the Add Adapter Metadata Wizard, and the Add Adapter Service Reference Plug-in.
Note
If you have created a solution using the adapter on a particular version of Oracle E-Business Suite, and now want to deploy the solution on a different version of Oracle E-Business Suite then you should test the solution before deploying it. You might face issues while deploying the solution on a different version of Oracle E-Business Suite because the metadata of the underlying artifact might be different. To resolve this issue, you should regenerate the metadata using the adapter on the same version of Oracle E-Business Suite on which you intend to deploy the solution.