Introduction
TIBCO BusinessConnect™ Container Edition Services Plug-in (later in this document referred to as Services Plug-in) is an easy-to-use data transfer protocol, which allows you to securely exchange data over the Internet.
Trading partners managed by TIBCO BusinessConnect™ Container Edition can quickly and efficiently be configured to exchange documents securely with the BusinessConnect Container Edition host over the Internet using this plug-in, without understanding or interpreting the document contents.
With the introduction to the Request/Response operation type, the Services Plug-in allows tracking of each document sent to or received from a trading partner, independent of the transport mechanism, and correlates the corresponding response document with the trading partner. The back office applications focus on the processing of the document contents sent to or received from BusinessConnect Container Edition, which ensures that the response document is properly logged with the corresponding request document and delivered or received to or from the trading partner on time.
You can containerize a TIBCO BusinessConnect Services Plug-in by using Docker. You can also run the Docker based TIBCO BusinessConnect Services Plug-in a Kubernetes cluster on the cloud platform of your choice.
Before installation and deployment of the protocol, you are required to see the following topics: