Run-Time Processing with EDIINT AS3
To exchange EDIINT AS3 messages with a trading partner, you use an FTP server that is located either on your system or on your trading partner's system. You use just one FTP server. The partner with the FTP server is referred to as the host partner.
The partner who accesses the host partner's FTP server is referred to as the client partner. To retrieve the EDIINT AS3 messages or files, the client partner needs to log in remotely as an FTP client.
To enable the partners to exchange EDIINT AS3 messages, the host partner must provide the client partner with a particular set of specifications known as a choreography. The AS3 term choreography refers to the actions that occur between a client and an FTP server, and the FTP commands that enable those actions to occur. The choreography describes the means for delivering, retrieving, and deleting EDIINT AS3 messages. It includes information about how an upload is communicated to the server as finished and available for a trading partner to download, such as renaming the file extension. In addition, it states whether the partner who downloads the message must send a delete command to clean up the file, or whether the message is removed through other means within the server.
The three categories of actions are:
Server logon actions (secure or un-secure)
Module for EDIINT uses the secure FTP support provided by Integration Server. Using this support, clients connect to remote FTP servers using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
Document upload and download actions
MDN upload and download actions
Each partner must specify the choreography information in a Trading Partner Agreement (TPA), as described in
Creating Trading Partner Agreements (TPAs)
for AS3 Support.