To work with the FTP connector, we will need some prerequisites. Firstly, we are going to need a web location that can be used for holding files and supports the Secure FTP (SFTP) standard. For the examples in the book, we will be using our book domain https://oracle-integration.cloud/. To implement these integrations you will need your own FTP service. If you have your own website, your hosting provider may well offer such a facility. If you do not, then there are a number of providers you could use for the purposes of the exercises in this book. To make life really easy, rather than fill the pages of this book with suggestions, we have shared some suggestions through the book's website.
We are going to need an FTP client. If you do not have one, then we would recommend the free cross-platform FileZilla client (https://filezilla-project.org). We will need this to load files in the source location and examine the target.
Finally, we will need some data. Within the resources for...
