webMethods Module for EDI offers built-in services in WmEDI and WmEDIforTN packages. The WmEDI package contains the core EDI document processing built-in services. The WmEDIforTN package contains additional built-in services for processing EDI documents using webMethods Trading Networks (Trading Networks).

In a distributed environment, to handle heavy EDI document processing loads, you can configure some of your servers to do the job of just translating the EDI documents by decoupling Module for EDI from Trading Networks. You can have a centralized Trading Networks server for storing the transactions in your EDI network and routing the EDI documents to your partners.

This appendix describes how to configure your EDI network nodes to use only the basic EDI document parsing and validating services available in the WmEDI package.