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Chapter 5 TIBCO BusinessConnect Transports and Protocols : Transports

Transports
Transports provide a set of standards for use in moving information across the Internet. Different transports are used in the different parts of the process, such as:
Public Transports
Public transports can be used in TIBCO BusinessConnect as inbound or outbound. For the physical transport location, see Figure 13.
Figure 13 Physical Location of Public Transports
The following public transports are supported in TIBCO BusinessConnect:
Figure 14 Inbound Public Transport Types
To learn how to add an inbound public transport for a host, see TIBCO BusinessConnect Interior Server Administration, Configuring Smart Routing.
All outbound transports and their configuration are explained in detail in the following chapters in TIBCO BusinessConnect Trading Partner Administration:
TIBCO Implementation of AS Standards
TIBCO BusinessConnect uses the following implementations of the AS1 and AS2 standards for exchanging documents over the Internet:
TIBCO BusinessConnect AS1 Transport
Vendor applications can use this TIBCO implementation of the AS1 standard to exchange EDI documents over the Internet using S/MIME and SMTP.
For more information, see TIBCO BusinessConnect Trading Partner Administration, "AS1 Transport Overview."
TIBCO BusinessConnect AS2 Transport
Vendor applications can use this TIBCO implementation of the AS2 standard to exchange EDI documents over the Internet using S/MIME and HTTP/S.
For more information, see TIBCO BusinessConnect Trading Partner Administration, "AS2 Transport Overview."
SSHFTP Implementation in TIBCO BusinessConnect
The SSHFTP (SFTP) transport is one of the public transports used for TIBCO BusinessConnect and is introduced in version 5.2.0. It is used to establish multiple tunnels for secure communication between two participants.
The established secure tunnels, if inactive, will be removed by TIBCO BusinessConnect.
Figure 15 SSHFTP Tunnels
Implementation of the SSHFTP transport is based on the following:
SSH   The Secure Shell (SSH) standard is available in the public domain, as described in RFC 4250 - 4254: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4250.txt?number=4250
SFTP   TIBCO BusinessConnect is compliant with the SFTP specification available at http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-03.
Cache Timeout
The cache timeout is time after which a tunnel will be removed if it is not in use (default is 2 hours).
Properties for configuring the cache timeout are available on the server side. When changing the cache timeout configuration, keep in mind that any new or pending transactions will use the tunnel that has been open after the configuration was changed.
All configuration steps for setting up trading partners for SSHFTP, and configuring of the cache timeout, are explained in TIBCO BusinessConnect Trading Partner Administration, SSHFTP Transport.

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