OIC Gen3 - using Recipes and Accelerators

Recipes and accelerators, collectively known as prebuilt integrations, are preassembled integration solutions.

A recipe or accelerator contains all the resources required for a specific integration scenario. The resources include integration flows, connections, lookups, and certificates. Use a recipe or accelerator to quickly get started building an integration.

Recipes types:

they are either project-based or package-based:

• When you install a project-based recipe, you can access it on the Projects page in Oracle Integration.
• When you install a package-based recipe, you can access it on the Packages page in Oracle Integration. 

How to determine whether a recipe in the Integration Store is project-based or package-based:

Before you install it, hover over the recipe card and click Open Details  to expand the information pane. The recipe details show either Project code (for a project-based recipe) or Package name (for a package-based recipe).

Differences Between Recipes and Accelerators

Recipes are sample use cases that give you a head start. Accelerators are run-ready business integrations or technical patterns of larger scale.

Here's a comparison of recipes and accelerators.

Recipes	Accelerators
A recipe is a sample use case that gives you a head start.	A business accelerator provides an end-to-end business process or use case (for example, marketing to lead, hire to retire, or concept to launch). A technical accelerator provides a common technical solution (for example, sending alerts on failures). They are meant to be called by another integration.
Not supported by the producer	Managed and supported by the producer
Fully editable in the Oracle Integration designer	Configurable and extendable
Can't auto-upgrade to new versions	Upgrades provided by producer
Configurator in Oracle Integration	Configurator in Oracle Integration and as native SaaS
Always free	Paid offering (as decided by producer)

How to find a recipe or accelerator:

1. On the Oracle Integration Home page, in the Get started section, click Browse store.
   The Integration Store is displayed. Note that you can toggle the display between a list view and a card view.
   
   
2. Use the Search , Filter , and view tools to narrow your search, filter and sort the list, and change how the list is displayed.

How to install a recipe or accelerator:

1. Find the recipe or accelerator that you want to install.
2. Hover over the recipe or accelerator card and click Install .
   When you install a recipe (or an accelerator), it's installed as a package or project. 

Note:

For project-based accelerators, Oracle periodically releases updates to the Integration Store. You can upgrade an installed accelerator project to a newer version automatically without making manual changes to your existing installation. 

Accelerators extensions and versions:

How to extend an accelerator:

1. First install the accelerator. Go to oracle home page >> view all >> select the version and install.
2. Once installed, for projects , click the action ellipsis(...) of the integration and click extend.
3. Add an extension group before or after the invoke and add a data stitich to enrich data to the invoke or add some fault handling logic after the invoke etc.
4. Save and activate.

How to version an accelerator:

Suppose an accelerator is already installed  and extension logic added and now new upgrade comes, then we can upgrade the version as below:

1. Go to oracle home page >> view all accelerators >> select the acceleraror to upgrade and select latest version and  install.
2. Once installed, for projects , click the ellipsis of the integrations and click refresh enspoints
3. Then marge the extension changes of the previous version to new version.  Click the action ellipsis of the integration >> click extend >> select the previous version to merge to this new version
4. Save it.

Reference

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/application-integration/int-get-started/get-started-integration-recipes-and-accelerators.html