Using the Auto Create Agreement Feature

5-44 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle B2B See Chapter 12, Scheduling Trading Partner Downtime for information about scheduling and managing trading partner downtime.

5.9 Broadcasting Messages to Multiple Trading Partners

Oracle B2B provides the capability to send the same message to multiple trading partners. This gives you the flexibility to create your own groups of trading partners specific to certain business needs. The back-end application interface can then send a message to the group and Oracle B2B sends the message to all the members of the group. The salient points of the feature are: 1. Prevents BPEL from sending multiple files, reducing the traffic on BPEL-B2B and also in B2B. 2. Introduces the concept of trading partner groups in B2B and uses it for broadcasting. This will prevent BPEL users from knowing about trading partner details as well as the group because it is B2B-specific metadata. 3. Provides an event driven approach to handle the multiple messages to various trading partners. To use broadcasting, specify the group name as part of the actionName attribute. The actionName attribute would look like this: actionName = Grouping:name_of_the_group Broadcasting requires an additional identifier to be added to the Trading Partner configuration indicating the group to which the partner is assigned. This is achieved by creating a new custom Identifier and associating the same for the required trading partners. See Section 10.3, Creating Custom Trading Partner Parameter Types for more information. 6 Creating and Deploying Trading Partner Agreements 6-1 6 Creating and Deploying Trading Partner Agreements The final steps in the Oracle B2B process flow, shown in Figure 6–1 , are to create and deploy the agreement. Figure 6–1 Oracle B2B Process Flow The image shows a step diagram linking the following blocks from left to right: 1. Oracle B2B Document Editor: Create Document Guidelines; 2. Oracle B2B: Create Document Definitions; 3. Oracle B2B: Configure Trading Partners; 4. Oracle B2B: Create Agreements; 5. Deploy Agreements. A trading partner agreement defines the terms that enable two trading partners, the initiator and the responder, to exchange business documents. It identifies the trading partners, trading partner identifiers, document definitions, and channels. This chapter contains the following topics: ■ Section 6.1, Introduction to Agreements ■ Section 6.2, Creating an Agreement ■ Section 6.3, Deploying an Agreement ■ Section 6.4, Deleting and Exporting Agreements See the following for more information: ■ Chapter 9, Managing Deployments, for how to export agreements and manage deployment states ■ Chapter 7, Importing and Exporting Data, for how to export agreements Create Document Guidelines 1 Create Document Definitions 2 Configure Trading Partners 3 Create Agreements 4 5 Oracle B2B Document Editor Oracle B2B Deploy Agreements