How Sterling B2B Integrator Supports AS1
This table describes how Sterling B2B Integrator supports AS1:
| Functionality | Instance | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Services and Adapters | EDIINT Message service | The EDIINT Message service builds and parses AS1 compliant messages and notifications. This service does not send or receive data. Sending and receiving data is done by the SMTP and mail client services, respectively. |
| EDIINT Acknowledge Check service | Determines whether an MDN acknowledgement has been received for an EDIINT message within a business process. The EDIINT Acknowledge Check service is designed to be used in a business process or series of related business processes that build and send a message after the steps for building and sending the message have been completed. | |
| B2B SMTP Client adapter | This adapter transports the AS1 message to the trading partner. For the B2B SMTP Client adapter, create a new instance if necessary. Also, you need to know the actual DNS name or address of the mail server that you want to use. | |
| B2B Mail Client adapter | This adapter picks up messages from a mail server. It then invokes a business process for each message as specified by you in its configuration settings. For AS1, this adapter should invoke the EDIINT Message Service business process for parsing. | |
| Business processes | There are no predefined business processes for AS1. You can create the custom business process to suit your requirements. | A business process is a series of linked software and possibly human activities that accomplishes a business goal. The activities in a business process are primarily performed by components known as services and adapters, and are orchestrated by Sterling B2B Integrator engine. Write a business process to poll a designated mailbox, download, and parse messages and to use the payload according to your business requirements. |
| Trading Partners | The Trading Partner user interface enables you to create AS1 trading partner profiles, and contracts between different trading partners. | Create one or more appropriate AS1 profile for your trading partners and for yourself
Create one contract for inbound messages and one contract for outbound for each trading partner relationship. |
| Monitoring | Search for AS1 information and monitor AS1 messages. | Use EDIINT () for searching the AS1 transactions. The EDIINT search function is only intended to track documents with MDNs. Use Sterling B2B Integrator search functionality to search for AS1 information. |