Notify Operation

Notify is a one way operation that simply sends a document to the trading partner and receives an acknowledgment: it is not capable of receiving a response from the trading partner.

The operation flow in a Notify operation is shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6 Notify Operation
The following process flow occurs with the Notify operation:

  1. The Initiator private process sends a message to the Initiator BusinessConnect Container Edition.

  2. The Initiator BusinessConnect Container Edition retrieves relevant information and sends the message to the Responder BusinessConnect Container Edition.

  3. The Responder BusinessConnect Container Edition immediately sends a transport response (acknowledgment) to the Initiator BusinessConnect Container Edition on the same channel as the Initiator business request.

  4. The Responder BusinessConnect Container Edition then forwards the message to the local private process.

    See Responder Inbound Request — BusinessConnect to Private Process. The Responder BusinessConnect Container Edition considers the operation as complete.

  5. The Initiator BusinessConnect Container Edition sends an INITIATOR.RESPONSE message to the private process.

    See Initiator Inbound Response — BusinessConnect to Private Process. This message is sent independently from the Responder BusinessConnect Container Edition, which sends a RESPONDER.REQUEST message to the Responder private process.

Supported Transports for the Notify Operation are: HTTP, HTTPS, HTTPSCA, File, FTP, FTPS, SSHFTP, Email, AS1, and AS2.