March 2005
Intermediate to advanced
826 pages
17h 57m
English
book
B2B Solutions using WebSphere BI Connect Version 4.2.2
by Geert Van de Putte, Jeff Brent, Ronan Dalton, Rich Kinard, Benjamin Thurgood
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22 B2B Solutions using WebSphere BI Connect Version 4.2.2
2.1 Requirements for a B2B solution
It seems that most businesses have fairly similar requirements relating to the
issues of sending data either between applications or between themselves and
their trading partners.
These are the requirements for most B2B scenarios (in all or part):
Ability to send and receive data
This can be structured or unstructured data across a variety of transport
protocols, for example HTTP, FTP, or Java Message Service (JMS).
Definable data formats
Definable message formats allow businesses to communicate with other
businesses, with data that may have to travel between different operating
systems and programs written in different languages. Having a definable ...