Traditional Oracle e-Commerce Gateway (ECG) integration can be time consuming, expensive, and disruptive to business and IT operations. The EEA product was designed to address common obstacles encountered during Oracle ECG integration projects, and streamline delivery of applications for production use.

Oracle E-Business Suite exposes two (2) main external interfaces that can be used for application integration: e-Commerce Gateway (ECG) and XML Gateway (XMG). The EEA product supports both, through the following features:

• ECG-specific metadata import: The EEA product enables metadata management features EBI base product for generation of internal ECG file definitions from imported ECG file metadata. The EBI product also imports DTD’s, XSD’s and W3C v1.1 WSDL for documents that are sent and received using web services.

• XMG-specific metadata import: The EEA product utilizes the EBI base product metadata management features for generation of internal schemas from DTD’s, XSD’s and W3C v1.1 WSDL for documents requiring XML/Web Services.
• The Integration Pattern Repository (IPR) includes preloaded mapping history patterns for Oracle ECG to facilitate rapid integration development.         

• EDI transaction examples: The EEA product contains sample EDI configuration objects for the following X12/ECG transaction combinations:  

Document	Direction	X12 ID	X12 Version	ECG ID
Purchase Order	Inbound	850	4010	POI
Shipment Notice	Outbound	856	4010	DSNO
Invoice	Outbound	810	4010	INO

Users of the EEA-EBS product can use these object sets as “base” configurations, and revise, as needed, to meet specific integration project requirements.

                         Implementation documentation: The EEA product includes Installation and User Guides, plus a full source / target cross reference for the EDI transactions listed above, including notes on specific message- and segment-level processing requirements.