Oracle provides various ways to integrate with its software and databases using REST and SOAP APIs. Whether you want to retrieve data from an Oracle database, perform operations within Oracle Cloud applications, or interact with Oracle services, you can use these integration methods.        

1. Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) – ORDS is a tool that allows you to create and expose RESTful Web Services for Oracle databases. It simplifies the process of developing RESTful services for your Oracle database tables and PL/SQL packages. You can use SQL Developer
or SQL*Plus to create RESTful services

a. Creating RESTful services            

b. Securing Services                  

c. API Documentation

2. Oracle Integration Cloud –  Oracle Integration Cloud provides a comprehensive cloud-based integration platform for connecting SaaS and on-premises applications. You can use it to integrate REST and SOAP-based web services.

a. Integration Flows                 

b. Connectivity and Adapters          

c. Monitoring and Analytics               

3. Oracle WebLogic Server – If you have Java applications, you can deploy them on Oracle WebLogic server, which supports both REST and SOAP web services. 

a. JAX – RS and JAX-WS  

4. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Services – Oracle Cloud offers a variety of services with REST API such as Oracle Object Storage, Oracle Database Cloud Service, Oracle Identity and access management. 

a. API Authentication                    

b. API Documentation  

5. SOAP Web services – Oracle supports SOAP web services through various tools and technologies, including Oracle BPEL process Manager,  Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle WebLogic server.

a. WSDL generation