Pervasive Oracle Adapters FAQ
Partnership With Oracle
Use With Oracle BPEL
Pervasive Adapter Specific
Partnership With Oracle
What is the relationship between Oracle and Pervasive Software?
Oracle and Pervasive have recently entered into a partnership whereby Oracle will refer customers to Pervasive adapters as a key solution for accessing legacy backend systems and unstructured data sources. This partnership allows Oracle customers to access and leverage their existing IT information assets from the Oracle Technology Platform.
What does the Pervasive product do for Oracle customers?
Pervasive Data Adapters for Oracle AS enable the last mile of tedious integration with legacy systems and otherwise hard to reach data. As more businesses move towards business process optimization, efficient integration with existing Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) becomes the key to success. These EIS applications are heterogeneous, come from different vendors, are based on different technologies, and run on different platforms. EIS systems can be packaged applications, legacy and mainframe applications, databases, messaging middleware, Web applications, or file systems distributed throughout the enterprise, and these systems need to be integrated seamlessly to achieve cost savings. The Pervasive Pervasive Data Adapters for Oracle AS provide truly flexible, highly scalable, real-time, bi-directional standards based connectivity platform to over 150+ EIS applications, enabling customers to deploy composite data services.
What does Pervasive mean by composite data services?
Data is the fuel that modern business runs on. Driven by the need to quicken the time to market, to reduce costs, and to minimize risk, CxOs are turning to service-oriented technology to gain a competitive advantage. Typically, most organizations have data residing in a large number of disparate applications and data sources that need to be unified into a composite instance for a variety of pressing business needs. In order to supply the required set of data that fuels these service-oriented applications, managers are frequently faced with very detailed and labor intensive coding, testing, and processing. Pervasive provides the tools to easily build complex data services that parse, validate, transform, and route application information, wrapping them into a composite data specification that is exposed as a Web service. Pervasive refers to this unified data integration process specification as a composite data service.
What Pervasive Adapters are included in this Oracle referral program?
Through this partnership, Oracle makes over 150 source data adapters available to its customers. Adapters are grouped into 6 adapter sets: File, Application, Technology, B2B, Legacy, and Database. Each adapter set includes a full suite of visual design-time and run-time tools for easily configuring, testing, and deploying composite data services.
Complete list of data adapters
How do the Pervasive Adapters differ from other competitive products?
- Pervasive Data Pervasive Data Adapters for Oracle AS are unmatched in price/value performance. As the value leader, Pervasive offers the richest adapter technology for the lowest total cost of ownership in this tool category.
- Pervasive's powerful set of visual tools for accessing and transforming data empower low-skilled technical labor to achieve the required results quickly. This approach enables customers to reduce the time to value as well as overall cost.
Example of typical data conversion for high volume data feeds:
| Effort Needed for Provisioning Customers for a Large Payroll Outsourcing Client |
| Custom Code |
Pervasive Data Adapters for Oracle AS |
Closest Competitors |
| Average time to bring new customer on-line -34 hours |
Average time to bring new customer on-line -2-10 hours |
5x the cost for comparable solution |
| Complex conversion - 16 hours |
Complex conversion -3 hours |
5x the cost for comparable solution |
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Use With Oracle BPEL
How is the Pervasive Adapter integrated with Oracle AS products (BPEL Process Manager)?
Deployed as a compact step (i.e.: Web Service) within an Oracle BPEL Flow, Pervasive Pervasive Data Adapters for Oracle AS extend the reach of Oracle BPEL Process Manager and the Oracle AS 10g platform to enable integration of legacy systems and hard to reach data.
What are the standards supported in the product?
Pervasive adapters are JCA compliant, SOAP- and WSIF-based, and interoperable with BizTalk Server and .NET technologies. Adapters support JDBC, ODBC, OLE DB, and ADO APIs, as well as message queuing technologies such as MSMQ, MQ Series, Oracle AQ, and JMS.
What versions of Oracle Application Server does this product support?
Oracle Application Server 10g and 9i are directly supported for composite data services called as a Web service, or other WSIF-based binding. Additionally, composite data services can be deployed for legacy Oracle applications and databases.
Is the Oracle Database required to run the product?
No. Pervasive Pervasive Data Adapters for Oracle AS run independently of any database application. Pervasive Adapters are able to access Oracle and many other database formats as a data resource in building composite data services.
Is the Oracle Application Server platform required to run the product?
Yes, because these adapters are only licensed to be deployed in conjunction with Oracle technology and not as a stand-alone. Users can deploy the adapter (see Integration Server FAQ under Product Specific information) on the Oracle Application Server platform or Oracle Process Manager platform.
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Pervasive Adapter Specific
How do Pervasive Data Adapters work?
Designed to optimize legacy applications, unstructured data, and compound data integrations for use in applications and business processes, the adapters can be called by Web Services, run by simple scripts, or executed at the command line.
What is the design-time experience of the Pervasive Data Adapters? Can I browse and/or generate XML schemas?
The design-time experience for configuring adapters is a drag-and-drop graphical interface that is visually intuitive and easy to use. All composite data services are saved as XML files.
Pervasive Data Adapters also ships with Repository Explorer, the heart of the adapter design tools. In this central location, you can launch all of the Designers, including the Map Designer, Join Designer, Extract Schema Designer, Structured Schema Designer, Source View Designer, and Document Schema Designer.
You can also open any Repository that you have created, and then open and run Composite Data Services, Transformations, or Schema files in the Repository list. In the Repository Explorer, you can access the version control functionality of CVS or Microsoft Visual SourceSafe. Additionally, you can check your files in and out of repositories using commands in Repository Explorer.
Do the adapters support connection pooling?
Yes. Pervasive Data Adapters JCA Resource Adapter interfaces with the Oracle Application Server. Pervasive Data Pervasive Data Adapters for Oracle AS Web Services and JCA via integration server have a pool of instances of the engine.
Do the adapters support load balancing?
Yes. The adapters are called via Engines (through instances of in-memory code called at runtime) that can be deployed across several CPUs. This allows vertical scaling - the ability to spawn multiple adapter instances on a multi-CPU SMP server.
Pervasive will support WSDL bindings to JMS in the next release. This will allow multiple, physically separate servers to listen to a single JMS queue, thus providing the ability to do horizontal load balancing.
What are the security features of the adapters?
The Pervasive Data Adapters security features utilize JAAS (Java Authentication and Authorization Services) and SSL encryption using JSSE (Sun Java Secure Socket Extension).
Do the adapters support Unicode?
Yes. Both UNICODE delimited and UNICODE fixed formats are supported.
Do the adapters provide delivery confirmations and error messages?
Yes. The adapters can be configured to send confirmations, error messages, and even log files via email or to other SMTP capable devices.
What are the available client interfaces to Integration Server?
There are five client interfaces to the integration engine: Web Services, JCA Resource, Java API, COM API, and Message Driven Beans.
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