Fast paths
This section describes, at a high-level, the tasks involved
in setting up and running a Partner Gateway trading community. It
also includes pointers to documentation, code samples, and PIP information,
you might need to help you get started.
The major steps required to establish a Partner Gateway trading
community are the following:
- Analyze the needs of your enterprise and trading partners:
- Identify the types of documents that will be sent and received.
- Examine the content of the documents that will be exchanged
and determine how this data needs to be processed.
- For each document exchange scenario between a participant and
the Community Manager, identify the every action that needs to be
performed on the document and its contents on its path from the
sender, to Partner Gateway, to the back-end system, and finally
to the business application.
- Identify any documents that will require customized processing
and determine the customizations you need to make to support those
documents. Explore customization options and decide whether you
will need to customize any document-handling or workflow.
- If necessary, work with trading partners to modify the formats
or protocols of their business documents to enable their participation
in the trading community.
- Use the Data Interchange Services client to create validation
and transformation maps for document content that requires them.
- Plan the trading community:
- Estimate the volume of documents that will be exchanged
- Determine the number of WebSphere Partner Gateway instances
you need to deploy.
- Determine your security requirements. Assess whether your installation requires
a reverse proxy server.
- Determine how you will integrate Partner Gateway with your back-end system.
- Define the process you will follow for connecting businesses
to the trading community.
- Consider how you will adjust the community to respond to changing business
needs.
- Install Partner Gateway.
- Configure the hub and define community participants.
- Perform administrative tasks as needed to maintain the trading
community.
The documentation available to help you perform these tasks is
listed below.
