Oracle SAAS - Integration, Configuration and Extension

Summary This blog explains how to setup Oracle’s API Gateway – a serverless component from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) – to directly call Oracle Cloud Applications REST APIs. I will show how it is done for Oracle ERP Cloud – but this applies to any API exposed by Oracle’s Cloud Applications. I will not only explain how the setup is done, but I will also explain why you would do this. This blog is not a tutorial on OCI or Oracle's API Gateway. Why? So, let’s start with the ‘Why’ question. What value can be derived from using Oracle’s API Gateway in front of Oracle Cloud Applications REST APIs? Quite a lot of value it seems. First of all, you need to know that Oracle Cloud Applications expose literally hundreds of REST APIs which can be called by other SAAS services, mobile apps, chat-bots and so on. The amount of innovation that can be created using those REST APIs is only limited by your imagination. But you don’t want to forget about security, right? The innovation you want