Transport Mechanisms

Many companies standardize on a transport solution, such as MQSeries from IBM, or MSMQ from Microsoft. These transports allow the transportation of messages between systems. Oracle conforms to this standard by allowing you to plug a Siebel application into these environments through the Siebel EAI set of adapters, which include the MQSeries adapter, the MSMQ adapter, and the HTTP adapter.

A transport adapter that is developed by Oracle or by a partner that is certified by Oracle, allows diverse applications to communicate with a Siebel application across various operating systems, networks, and databases. The following image illustrates the various transports that are available in order to communicate to and from a Siebel application when a new order is processed. The transports are as follows:

• HTTP (HTTP) transport adapter with Web/Java applications.

• IBM WebSphere MQ (MQ Get/Put) transport adapter with IBM MQ enabled applications.

• JMS (MQ Get/Put) transport adapter with JMS enabled applications.

• SAP IDOC (IDOC) transport adapter with SAP applications.

• SAP BAPI (BAPI) transport adapter with SAP applications.

• Microsoft MSMQ (MSMQ) transport adapter with MSMQ enabled applications.

One or more of these transports can be used in an integration, depending upon requirements from existing applications and other factors. These transports can also be configured as a Siebel Server Receiver to receive a message. For example, the MQSeries Server Receiver.

For more information, see Transports and Interfaces: Siebel Enterprise Application Integration.