A Trading Partner Agreement (TPA) is a set of parameters that you can use to govern how business documents are exchanged between two trading partners. When you import a PIP archive (.par file) or PIP Specification file into Integration Server, the TPAs for that PIP are created in Trading Networks. You can view and customize the TPAs in My webMethods. For information about working with TPAs, see webMethods Trading Networks Administrator’s Guide.

Every PIP in RosettaNet Module is associated with two TPAs, one for the sender in a conversation and one for the receiver. The TPAs contain a set of parameters that map to some (but not all) elements in the service header of a business document. The TPA parameters and the service header elements to which the parameters map vary between RNIF version 1.1 and 2.0.