Overview of communications adapters in Sterling Integrator: Server adapters receive data from trading partner and bootstrap a BP or s...
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Overview of communications adapters in Sterling Integrator:
- Server adapters receive data from trading partner and bootstrap a BP or store it in mailbox. Partners can also retrieve data from SI.
- Client adapters connect to trading partner systems and send / receive data.
Integration with various aspects of SI:
Server components for B2B in SI are FTP, SFTP, HTTP, WS – HTTP over SOAP
FTP Server Adapter in SI:
- FTP Server is tightly integrated with the Application mailbox system.
- An FTP client can only access the mailbox that is assigned to its user account.
- This adapter receives and processes requests from external trading partners that are submitted using the FTP protocol. This adapter is used with a Application Perimeter server.
- Use this adapter to put files into a Application mailbox or get files from a Application mailbox.
- mailbox activities can trigger routing rules.
SFTP Server Adapter in SI:
- Uses Mailbox subsystem as its repository (virtual roots)
- Receives and processes requests from external trading partners that are submitted through the SFTP protocol or SCP protocol
- Use this adapter to enable external SFTP clients or SCP clients to put files into a Application Mailbox or get files from a Application Mailbox.
- Routing rules for items placed in Mailbox can be used to trigger a business process
CD Server Adapter:
- This adapter receives and processes requests from remote Connect:Direct nodes.
- Mediate requests originating from a business process and going to an external trading partner using a (non-application) Connect:Direct node or another Connect:Direct Server adapter.
- Accept requests from a Connect:Direct node (or another Connect:Direct Server adapter) to copy to or from a mailbox or business process
- Forward requests from one remote Connect:Direct node to another
HTTP Server Adapter:
- Use this adapter to send documents to and receive documents from a trading partner using HTTP
- Uses Perimeter services
- Uses the same Jetty HTTP server engine as the GIS ASI console
- Able to run both WARs and BPML applications
- Runs application code inside the Application JVM for access to all Application resources
- Handles SOAP requests as well