Appendix. Summary of supported business and transport protocols

This appendix summarizes the supported transport and business protocols included with Partner Gateway. Through the use of user exits, the product can also be customized to support additional protocols. See the Programmer Guide for more information about customization options.

Table 3. Summary of support for XML and Binary protocols provided by Partner Gateway.
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 Partner Gateway.
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.

SSL Connection with Server and Client Authentication

Business encryption with triple DES.

Digital signature hashing with SHA-1 or MD5.

SSL Connection with Server and Client Authentication

Business encryption with triple DES and RC2-40

Digital signature hashing with SHA-1 or MD5.

SSL Connection with Server and Client Authentication SSL Connection with Server and Client Authentication
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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