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11.5 Summary
At the end of this chapter, Company E can now exchange documents with
Company F over FTP and possible FTPS. From an operational perspective, we
can still use the document viewer to monitor the document exchange with
Company F, in the same way that was done for the exchanges with Company A
and Company X.
The use of FTP has also little impact on back-end applications that generate the
documents for Company F. These applications do need to write the documents in
the right directory and the files need to have a specific name. Some portions of
the routing logic is offloaded from WebSphere BI Connect to the back-end
applications.
When Company F decides to use AS2 as well, ...