Summary of supported protocols
Partner Gateway includes built-in support for the following
transport, messaging, and business protocols. However, with customization,
Partner Gateway can support virtually any customer-required protocol.
- Transport protocols: documents can be exchanged with participants
over any of the following transports:
- HTTP or HTTPS
- FTP or FTPS
- FTP scripting
- JMS
- SMTP
- File-directory-based
- Business protocols:
- AS1 and AS2
- RosettaNet 1.1 and 2.0
- SOAP (Web services)
- cXML
- Data types:
- EDI X12 and EDIFACT
- XML
- Custom XML.
- Flat files.
The following illustration shows the numerous supported transports
for integrating trading participants with Partner Gateway, and Partner
Gateway with a back-end system such as ICS.
Figure 7. Supported transports for integrating trading participants with Partner Gateway, and Partner Gateway with a back-end system such as ICS.
