Biztalk vs OIC
So we are developing integration solutions using Biztalk 2016 and recently we started working with Oracle's Integration Cloud iPaaS service. We have found it quite painful and limiting and until this week have been singing the praises of Biztalk, saying that it's just far easier to work with and more functionally rich. Well... This week I had what seemed a simple task. Take an OAGIS BODFailureMessage (OAGIS is awesome) and send the details to Service Desk Plus, then put the resultant Request ID back into the original message and send it onwards. Seemed pretty straightforward. Problem #1 Service Desk Plus has an API that enables us to POST a Request BUT the API does not accept a message-body; it wants you to send the details of the request (which is a JSON payload) as a parameter called input_data. Now from Postman, this is quite easy. Simply add a key-value pair in the Body using the x-www-form-urlencoded option like so: However, when it comes to doing the same thing in Bi...