For information about this property, see Properties to Set trading partner collaboration in Fusion Middleware Control. An immediate acknowledgment is generated and transmitted in the TCP transport layer instead of the document layer. For protocols with acknowledgments, B2B waits for the acknowledgment (formerly called the Time to Acknowledge parameter). If it is not received, the retry interval setting causes B2B to retry.

Configuring trading partners (overview of all steps)

See Table 5-5 for descriptions of the Start Block and End Block parameters. Electronic Volatility (finance) business Extensible Markup Language (ebXML) Messaging Service (ebMS)—specification used to exchange XML documents. Oracle B2B supports ebMS 1.0 and 2.0 and uses the HTTP, HTTPS, and Email transport protocols and the SOAP packaging protocol. Oracle B2B also supports XMLDSig, XML Encrypt, and gZip-based compression for large documents. Identifier types enable Oracle B2B to identify a trading partner at runtime.

2 Creating Trading Partner Profiles

In our scenario, we communicate over AS2 protocol, so we establish 3 channels — Sender, Receiver and one more Receiver for MDN acknowledgement. At first we need to configure our Parent Company, which is the business entity we are going to integrate with external Trading Partners. We can have only one Parent Company, which means we cannot create a dummy one for testing. An agreement can be exported to a ZIP file by using https://www.xcritical.com/ the Export button on the Agreement tab. Enter the length of time in minutes between document retries. Select to enable the functional acknowledgment for success or error criterion.

9 Broadcasting Messages to Multiple Trading Partners

The default content type is text/plain; other examples include application/xml and application/edi. This value is used only for the delivery channel (to send e-mail) and not for the listening channel. On the listening channel side, intelligence is built into the transport adapter to deal with different content types, so no configuration is required. Users with the administrator role can access all B2B functions for their trading partner data only.

Creating and Deploying Trading Partner Agreements

This leads to under-utilizing the B2B application during downtime and overloading when the trading partner comes up. This affects the regular message flow, because there is a surge in message processing. If the incoming message’s HTTP headers contains SEQUENCE_TARGET as a header, then the value of this is used as the sequence target. If SEQUENCE_TARGET is not available and there is a FROM HTTP header, then that is used as the sequence target.

In Oracle B2B, a transaction involves two trading partners, the host trading partner and a remote trading partner. The host trading partner is the organization where Oracle B2B is installed. The remote trading partner is the organization with whom the host trading partner conducts an e-business transaction.

Provides an event driven approach to handle the multiple messages to various trading partners. Identifiers available in design-time data are used to look up trading partners. Identifiers do not need to be part of a deployed, active agreement. That is, for a generic exchange, document retry attempts are triggered only post-transmit, whereas for a standard Acknowledgment case, attempts are triggered only upon receipt of positive Acknowledgment. For a negative Acknowledgment, document retry attempts are not triggered. Trading partner downtime is typically handled by stacking messages in the back-end application, which requires the entire message processing in B2B after the downtime.

To extract a custom header for inbound messages, set the CUSTOM_HEADER property as the CalloutMessage parameter in the callout. The property will be available as part of the actionName properties in the back-end application. Use the Message Length Index and Header Length parameters available on the Exchange Protocol Parameters tab when you select MLLP-1.0 for a remote trading partner. See Table 5-5 for descriptions of the Message Length Index and Header Length parameters. Use the Start Block, End Block, Message Length Index, and Header Length parameters available on the Exchange Protocol Parameters tab when you select MLLP-1.0 for a remote trading partner. Use the Start Block and End Block parameters available on the Exchange Protocol Parameters tab when you select MLLP-1.0 for a remote trading partner.

In case of Generic HTTP/AS2, based on the additional HTTP headers, such as DOCTYPE_NAME and DOCTYPE_REVISION, Oracle B2B identifies the agreement and sends it to the back-end application. RosettaNet 2.0 does not include the proprietary aspects of RosettaNet 1.1, and adds support for multiple transfer protocols, hub-based routing, attachments, payload encryption, and more. Applicability Statement 2, version 1.1—specification for using EDI over the Internet. AS2 also works with non-EDI document types such as .xml, .txt, .doc, and .xls. A B2B user with the Administrator role must have membership in the WebLogic Administrators group to get the privileges such as seeing all trading partners.

Applicability Statement 1—specification for using EDI over SMTP. AS1 also works with non-EDI document types such as XML and TXT files. Host administrators and remote administrators can add users (remote administrators for their own data only) if they have been granted that permission by the default administrator. Click New, and then add a user and user password on the page shown in Figure 5-8.

Oracle B2B stores and uses the dynamic endpoint details for correlation of the acknowledgment. To send data to the trading partner without adding a header and retain the back-end application header, select the Retain Header property. See Table 5-5 for a description of Retain Header parameter.

• To interpret a message using the length of the data or the start string and end string instead of SB and EB, Oracle B2B provides a generic solution for TCP.
• In order to perform intercompany transactions in SAP, you must also define a trading partner on every transaction.
• After successful transmission of a business message, B2B must wait for Functional Acknowledgment for specified time.
• Message encryption using an AES setting is preferable, where available.
• In general, the identification process is to identify the partner, then the document, and then the partner-document pair identifies the agreement.

Transport by which messages are sent to or received from a file at a remote MFT server. Transport by which messages are sent to or received from a file at a remote SFTP server. Transport by which messages are sent to or received from a file at a remote FTP server.

To enable this feature, set the Document Retry Count and Document Retry Interval parameters as shown in the following graphic. If the message ID (MSG_ID) is provided from a back end application, then MSG_ID is set to JMS Correlation ID in the B2B output, otherwise the JMS Message ID is set to JMS Correlation ID in the B2B output. The initiator of the sync flow must set ack mode none/Async in AS2 or ebms channel. By default, the value is 0, which is the setting for sequencing without dispatching (stacking).

Because MLLP is a bidirectional channel, it is not considered to be a listening channel and the same MLLP delivery channel can be used for both sending and receiving messages. Security parameters define features such as signing, encryption, and digital signatures. Message encryption using an AES setting is preferable, where available.