Design Phase: Using ePM

eXchange Partner Manager (ePM) is used to create and configure trading partners and to create transaction profiles — an association between a particular trading partner and a set of parameters whose metadata are defined by the B2B Host’s attribute definitions.

For example, if a B2B Host uses the HTTP transport attributes definition, then a transaction profile for that B2B Host can use HTTP for transport, and must therefore be provided a value for the URL parameter. Or, if it uses the FTP transport, then it must be provided values for hostname, target directory, and so forth.

Saving a Trading Partner profile stores all of its transaction profiles’ configuration settings in the LDAP database.