Appendix A. Summary of supported business and transport protocols

This appendix summarizes the supported transport and business protocols included with Business Integration Connect. The product can also be customized to support additional protocols.

Table 3. Summary of support for XML and Binary protocols provided by Business Integration Connect


XML Binary
Supported version N/A N/A
Synchronous transactions? No No
Support for passthrough only or support for protocol and document translation? Both business protocol and document translation supported for XML (XSLT). No
Attachments supported? No No
Specific transactions supported? N/A N/A
Security FTP/S and HTTP/S (HTTP header authentication is supported for outbound). No
Communication between hub and participants
  • JMS
  • HTTP/S
  • FTP/S
  • File directory

  • JMS
  • HTTP/S
  • FTP/S
  • File directory

Back-end integration options
  • JMS
  • HTTP/S
  • File directory

  • JMS
  • HTTP/S
  • File directory

Samples provided?

Yes. See Code samples.

No


Table 4. Summary of support for AS1, AS2, RosettaNet, Soap, and cXML protocols provided by Business Integration Connect.


AS1 AS2 RosettaNet SOAP cXML
Supported version N/A N/A RNIF 1.1 and 2.0
  • SOAP version 1.1
  • WSDL version 1.1

Version 1.2.009 is preloaded.
Synchronous transactions? No Message Disposition Notification (MDN) only. Yes Both request only and request-response operations are supported. Both cXML asynchronous and request-response (synchronous) are supported.
Support for passthrough only or support for protocol and document translation? Both business protocol and document translation supported for XML (XSLT) Both business protocol and document translation supported for XML (XSLT). Both business protocol and document translation supported for RNIF to RNSC and vice versa. Passthrough only. Passthrough support is primary usage; however, document translation is possible, but will change the behavior for synchronous cXML.
Attachments supported? No No Yes No Yes
Specific transactions supported? N/A N/A See Supported PIPs. Support for RPC and document styles. Passthrough- support only is available for Punctuate messages.
Security

Business encryption with triple DES.

Digital signature hashing with SHA-1 or MD5.

HTTPS

Business encryption with triple DES.

Digital signature hashing with SHA-1 or MD5.

HTTPS

Business encryption with triple DES, RS5, or RS2.

Digital signature hashing with SHA-1 or MD5.

HTTPS HTTPS
Communication between hub and participants SMTP HTTP/S HTTP/S HTTP/S HTTP/S
Back-end integration options Payload only using:
  • JMS
  • HTTP/S
  • File directory
  • JMS
  • HTTP/S
  • File directory

  • JMS (when using RNSC)
  • HTTP/S

HTTP/S HTTP/S
Samples provided? No No

Yes. See Code samples .



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