EmbeddedServer es = new EmbeddedServer();
EmbeddedConfiguration ec = new EmbeddedConfiguration();
//set any configuration properties
ec.setUseDisk(false);
es.start(ec);
//example of adding a translator by class - this will make a default instance available with the default name of oracle
es.addTranslator(OracleExecutionFactory.class);

//add a translator by instance - this is functionally equivalent to using a vdb.xml translator override
OracleExecutionFactory oef = new OracleExecutionFactory();
//configure and start the instance
oef.setDatabaseVersion("11.0");
oef.start();
es.addTranslator("my-oracle", oef);

//add a connection factory provider if needed
//the default is to perform a jndi lookup of the datasource names given
//however out of a container you will likely need to manually inject the necessary connection factory

ConnectionFactoryProvider<DataSource> cfp = new EmbeddedServer.SimpleConnectionFactoryProvider<DataSource>(...);
es.addConnectionFactoryProvider("ora-ds", cfp);

//add a vdb

//physical model
ModelMetaData mmd = new ModelMetaData();
mmd.setName("my-schema");
mmd.addSourceMapping("my-schema", "my-oracle", "ora-ds");

//virtual model
ModelMetaData mmd1 = new ModelMetaData();
mmd1.setName("virt");
mmd1.setModelType(Type.VIRTUAL);
mmd1.setSchemaSourceType("ddl");
mmd1.setSchemaText("create view \"my-view\" OPTIONS (UPDATABLE 'true') as select * from \"my-table\"");

es.deployVDB("test", mmd, mmd1);