Category: General

A beginner-friendly introduction to REST APIs explaining their purpose, importance in Oracle Fusion, and how they are commonly used in integrations with OIC and VBCS.

Explains the core concepts behind web communication, including HTTP vs HTTPS, the client-server model, and how requests and responses flow between systems.

Covers all major HTTP methods such as GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE, explaining when and how each method should be used in REST APIs.

Describes the role of HTTP headers in REST APIs, focusing on metadata, authentication, content negotiation, and commonly used request and response headers.

Provides a clear overview of HTTP status code categories and commonly used response codes to help understand API success, errors, and failures.

Explains different API security mechanisms including Basic Authentication, API Keys, Bearer Tokens, JWT, and OAuth 2.0 with practical usage scenarios.

Outlines best practices for designing scalable REST APIs, covering URL structure, statelessness, proper HTTP method usage, and API versioning.

Explains different caching techniques such as application-level caching, request-level caching, and conditional caching to improve API performance and scalability.

Focuses on efficiently managing large API responses using filtering, sorting, pagination, and best practices to ensure performance and reliability.

Covers Oracle Fusion specific REST features including q parameter, finder, fields, expand, links, and onlyData for optimized enterprise integrations.