When it comes to IT, things develop and change at a tremendous rate and cloud services are likely to increase this tempo. The thing that impacted the rate of change was the speed by which customers could apply updates. Vendors do not want to upset customers by changing so quickly that, as soon as they have deployed the latest edition, there is already another version released. Not only do you want to avoid frustrating users with the tempo of deploying updates, but also, as a software vendor, you do not want to be trying to support too many versions of a product. All of this disappears when offered as a cloud service, as the vendor will be conducting the updates for you. As the vendor has control of the deployment of updates, they can keep everyone up-to date, simplifying things for them. This means that we will see a heightened arms race by cloud providers. This is great for us as customers, as we will see more and more capability in the short term; but for us as authors, and Packt as our publisher, it risks this book appearing to date quickly.
To help with this, the book has dealt with stuff that is unlikely to change much, so you may find that elements of capability appear to be missing. So how do you find out about how to get the most of these newer features? Well, the authors have committed to having their own site to support this book, which can be found at http://oracle-integration.cloud. As things evolve, the authors will endeavor to write articles about the new capabilities added, plus reference known resources that we are aware of.
This does not mean that the only point of information is the book's website. Oracle provides a raft of channels for information. Not only that, Oracle support a number of community channels where you can go find information and ask questions. This is all in addition to the more formal channels that Oracle offers, such as the formal support (http://support.oracle.com), account management team, and so on. You might consider also exploiting the information at:
In addition to ICS related resources, you may be interested in knowing about, the following resources look at broader integration concepts and techniques that can be used with ICS or any other integration capability, for example SOA CS:
In addition to providing information about developments on ICS and its capabilities, the authors will seek to also provide a catalog of potentially helpful sites to help with a deeper understanding of the standards ICS supports such as SOAP and WSDL, but also web-based tools that will also help with development activities. There is no doubt that purely cloud-based tooling is still developing, so we shall seek to keep a list of sites and tools that may help you going forwards updated.
In terms of broader technical resources that may help you in the future:
In addition to this of course, there a broad range of Packt books and online educational material available at https://www.packtpub.com.