Getting Started with Oracle Data Integrator

Just before i finished for 2 weeks leave ( new arrival to the family last week) I had the opportunity to spend some time working with Oracle Data Integrator , ODI.

The challenge set was to help automate the loading of external XML files using ODI to start and then use its other functionalities in the future like exposing some of these processes as web services.

I had spent some time using the Oracle 'Getting Started' document : http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28280_01/integrate.1111/e12641/toc.htm

I also purchased this book 'Getting Started with Oracle Data Integrator 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial' which was an excellent introduction into using ODI and even had a couple of sections on using XML.

Although my main responsiblity was to tackle the architecture and deployment of all the components, I'd spent some time playing and so was able to get involved with the early design solutions.

The next posts are going to cover deploying the components and then a few posts on using it to load data in from an XML file , from a database source to target, enriching the data ....