Protocol Features
The Services Plug-in has the following features:
- Support for Public Transports
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The basic transport connectivity includes the File, Email, HTTP/S, FTP/S, and SSHFTP transports. These transports follow industry transport protocol standards such as AS1, AS2, SMTP, POP, S/MIME, SSH, SSL to provide document security by encryption and document authenticity by digital signature.
- Support for Operations
- The following operations are supported in the Services Plug-in:
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Notify operation is a one way operation. It can send a document to the trading partner and receive the acknowledgment. It is not capable of receiving the response from the trading partner.
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Synchronous Request Response Operation
Synchronous Request Response operation sends the document to the trading partner and waits for the response until the response is received; it suspends any further processing for that request.
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Asynchronous Request Response Operation
Asynchronous Request Response operation sends the document to the trading partner and waits for the response, but it allows further processing irrespective of the response arrival from the partner.
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- XML Validation
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The Services Plug-in supports XSD and DTD schema validation. To learn more about validating schemas, see Configuring Services Plug-in Operations.
- Support for Multiple Attachments
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The Services Plug-in allows multiple attachments. Private process can send these attachments in a sequence and each attachment has the following structure.
For more information, see Multiple Attachments.