Summary of Features

eXchange Integrator provides an open B2B protocol framework to support standard EDI and B2B business protocols and delivery protocols. Not only does it support existing standard protocols, with an extensive set of prebuilt business processes (BPs), it also provides the tools and framework to create and adopt new protocols and to build custom BPs.

B2B modeling semantics are exposed so that business rules can be added and tailored to address the particular needs of each eBusiness challenge. The tight integration with the rest of Java CAPS provides validation, logging, and reporting capabilities. Because each logical step within any business rule is accessible anywhere along the entire business process, the design tools provide complete end-to-end visibility.

The trading partner management facility, eXchange Partner Manager (ePM), is provided via a Web interface. Trading partner profiles can be created from scratch and configured manually; or, for easy interoperability, they can be imported. Each trading partner profile is identified by a unique ID determined by the enterprise. ePM is also used to configure parameters for acknowledgments, compression, industry-standard encryption and decryption, and non-repudiation.

At run time, key steps in the business process, from initial receipt of the message to final delivery to the trading partner, are tracked in real time and also stored in the eXchange Integrator database. The Web-based message/package tracker provides tools for retrieving and filtering tracked message and envelope information. Used in conjunction with the other monitoring tools of Java CAPS, this provides the enterprise with a complete solution for troubleshooting and managing all eBusiness activities.