Communications concepts
B2B Advanced Communications supports AS4 and AS2 protocols for secure and reliable exchange of B2B documents.
- SFTP receiver overview
An SFTP receiver is a configurable component in B2B Advanced Communications that serves as an endpoint for receiving data from a trading partner in an SFTP exchange. - SFTP exchange profile overview
An exchange profile facilitates the exchange of data between a sender organization and a receiver organization. An SFTP exchange profile facilitates the exchange of data across SFTP. - SFTP server overview
An SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) server is an endpoint that is associated with a receiver or a destination during a message exchange. The server can be associated with more than one destination or receiver, but a destination or receiver can be associated with only one server. - AS4 conformance policy overview
AS4 simplifies the ebMS 3.0 specification for web services business-to-business messaging. The AS4 conformance policy is a subset of the ebMS specification. It provides guidelines for secure and payload-agnostic exchange of B2B documents using web services. - AS4 exchange profile overview
An exchange profile contains the necessary information needed by a owner organization and a trading partner organization to facilitate the exchange of messages between them. - AS4 receiver overview
An AS4 receiver is a configurable component in B2B Advanced Communications that allows trading partners to communicate. - AS4 error handling overview
The error handling framework in B2B Advanced Communications provides error handling and logging components to support the message transaction operations between your organization and a trading partner. - AS4 notification overview
The notification framework in B2B Advanced Communications provides notification and logging components to support the message transaction operations between B2B Advanced Communications and your business application. - MIME multipart message overview
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet standard that is used to support the transfer of single or multiple text and non-text attachments. Non-text attachments can include graphics, audio, and video files. You can send multiple attachments in a single ebMS message by using the MIME implementation in B2B Advanced Communications. - Nonrepudiation overview
Nonrepudiation is a security mechanism that is used in business-to-business transactions to establish the sender, the receiver, and the contents of the file that is transmitted. - Reception awareness overview
Reception awareness is a reliability feature that allows your organization (sender) to know whether the trading partner (receiver) received the message intact and that the message was not tampered during the transmission. When a message is received, the receiver sends a receipt to the sender. In addition to meeting the reception awareness requirements, the receipt indicates that the receiver was able to process the message and send the message to the business application. - Anonymous partner overview
B2B Advanced Communications supports using an anonymous partner for authentication and authorization, instead of configuring a partner organization in the system. The anonymous partner allows you to represent more than one partner through the anonymous partner mechanism. This mechanism supports many trading partners (or individual users) without needing to configure an organization (identity representation in the system), specific certificates, and exchange details for each one. - Pull destination overview
In a two-way push pull or one-way pull message exchange, the messages that can be pulled by a trading partner are stored in the pull destination. - Duplicate detection overview
Duplicate detection is the ability of the receiving message service handler to detect a duplicate message. In B2B Advanced Communications, messages that are received from a trading partner are checked for duplication and eliminated based on the configuration of the conformance policy. - Jumpstart overview
Jumpstart is a feature in B2B Advanced Communications that allows you to quickly and easily share the exchange profile configuration with your trading partner. - Exchange profile lookup overview
When B2B Advanced Communications receives a Business Document Object (BDO) from the business application or a message from the trading partner, the first action taken is the exchange profile lookup. An appropriate exchange profile is required to process the payload and attachments that are received from the business application or the message that is received from the trading partner. - Receipts and error messages bundling overview
In bundling, receipts and error messages are packed with a user message unit or a signal message unit and sent to the trading partner. - Split and join overview
The split and join feature in the ebMS 3.0 (advanced) specification is useful for transferring large messages. The split and join feature is applicable to one-way push and one-way pull message exchange patterns only. - Web services reliable messaging overview
The Web Services Reliable Messaging (WSRM) specification defines an interoperable protocol to reliably transmit messages from a source to a destination. - AS2 overview
Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) defines communication methods that can be used to efficiently and reliably exchange business data between trading partners. - AS2 exchange profile overview
An AS2 exchange profile contains the necessary information that is needed by an owner organization and a trading partner organization to facilitate the exchange of messages between them. - AS2 receiver overview
An AS2 receiver is a configurable component in B2B Advanced Communications that allows trading partners to communicate over the Applicability Statement2 (AS2) protocol. - AS2 chunked transfer encoding
The Chunked Transfer Encoding (CTE) feature divides the body of an AS2 message into smaller chunks. - AS2 file name preservation
The File Name Preservation feature in AS2 is used to preserve the file name of the business document during transmission from one trading partner to another. - AS2 reliability
With the AS2 Reliability feature, you can ensure that the AS2 messages are delivered once and only once. - Retry policy overview
A retry policy defines the options and course of action that the system takes when a message must be retransmitted to a partner or a target service. - HTTP or HTTPS server overview
An HTTP or HTTPS server is an endpoint to which messages are received or sent. - Destination overview
In B2B Advanced Communications, a destination is an endpoint for delivering data or message to a partner or business application. - Message fabric overview
The message fabric is a messaging infrastructure that connects the system components and allows them to communicate. - Message queue overview
A message queue enables the components in B2B Advanced Communications to communicate with each other. - Store and forward service
The store and forward service (SFS) stores documents that must be exchanged with a trading partner in a persistent store and forwards them to the target service. The dispatcher component invokes the SFS. - Retry levels and retry pattern overview
A primary function of the store and forward service (SFS) is to attempt to redeliver a message when delivery of a message fails. - Business document object overview
A business document object is an XML messaging structure that facilitates interoperability between B2B Advanced Communications and a business application.
Parent topic: B2B Advanced Communications concepts