Appcode: A New Approach to Cloud Integration

In an organization, if a new adapter needs to be developed for accessing a database or a remote API, it is tedious. It takes time, human resources and faces budgetary constraints. If the requirement is just momentary, it is futile to exploit these aspects. So it is necessary to look into a feature which serves the purpose and that is where AppCode fits exactly. You don’t need new installations or applications, you just need to use the classes and implement the methods. 

What is AppCode?
AppCode is a framework which allows developers to plugin custom JAVA code. It can effectively integrate with any external system by implementing the necessary AppCode interface which is exposed for integration with DBSync platform.

A new Approach to Cloud Integration
Consider a company which has its product catalogues listed on a custom Ecommerce platform. For backup purpose, if there arises a requirement to sync its product catalogue on scheduled intervals into their databases we need an integration system. When a client uses an integration platform like DBSync to sync data between two systems, for instance let us say ECommerce platform(without a pre-defined DBSync adapter) and a database, he wants to push his product and invoices information pulled from ECommerce platform to dedicated backup databases.

What AppCode does here is, it reads data from ECommerce platform and plugs it into the integration workflow like DBSync. So on one side of the process, we will have the integration happening with database using DB connector and on other side a custom AppCode library which interacts with the ECommerce engine. The latter part is where the library will push the data from ECommerce platform to database. 

Benefits of AppCode

1. Easy To Implement: AppCode is a feature built with simple implementation process to meet the rapidly emerging technical requirements. You don’t need a dedicated adapter to implement it and also it is not required to be aware of full functionality of the source.
2. Plug and Play: Its plug and play feature make it standout from other such implementations. Let’s say, your app is running and a customer wants to implement certain functionality. Since AppCode is purpose oriented, it can be implemented independently from other instances and classes.
3. Highly Customizable: As a phenomenon, like other DBSync apps and services, AppCode too is provisioned with high customizability. It can be made adaptable to different business scenarios by customizing as per your requirement to accomplish your business goals.
4. No need to know full functionality of the targeted source: If an adapter is to be coded for an ecommerce platform, you need to be aware of many aspects like how to insert, delete, remove or update the product/record invoices. In case you are using AppCode, you don’t need to know about other functionalities except for the purpose. For ex: If you need to extract an API data and update it, you can just do it without worrying about other features getting affected.

DBSync is a complete on-demand integration and replication provider that empowers companies to connect any combination of SaaS, cloud and on-premise applications together without the burden of installing and maintaining software and appliances.