How Sterling Connect:Enterprise for UNIX Interoperability Works

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Interoperability between Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling Connect:Enterprise® works in both directions. Both systems can initiate information exchange and respond to information requests with the ability to invoke business processes and track activity on both ends.

The following figure shows a high-level view of how Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling Connect:Enterprise work together to exchange information:

Sterling Connect:Enterprise for UNIX Server Adapter

As shown in the preceding figure, connectivity between Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling Connect:Enterprise for UNIX is handled through a special adapter, the Sterling Connect:Enterprise for UNIX Server Adapter.

When an external trading partner sends business documents electronically to a mailbox on Sterling Connect:Enterprise, the Server Adapter can receive notification and then use the account and schedule information from Sterling Connect:Enterprise to invoke business processes. These business processes use services to interact with the Sterling Connect:Enterprise mailbox. These services are described fully in the next section.

When data in a Sterling Connect:Enterprise mailbox matches the criteria of a notification schedule Sterling Connect:Enterprise notifies the Server Adapter.The Server Adapter can also call Sterling Connect:Enterprise unsolicited.

When the Server Adapter retrieves the batch summary data, it sets this information in ProcessData and invokes the business process. The business process can extract data from or add data to Sterling Connect:Enterprise and perform other back-end activities.

CAUTION:

Because of continuing efforts to improve services and adapters to align with new technology and capabilities, the Sterling Connect:Enterprise adapter was retired and replaced in Sterling B2B Integrator with the Sterling Connect:Enterprise for UNIX Server Adapter with related services.