Preparing to Use TIBCO BusinessConnect Container Edition - RosettaNet Protocol

This section describes the preliminary information you need to configure the server for your RosettaNet transactions. It also gives the instructions for configuring some of this information in your BusinessConnect Container Edition server. You must perform all the tasks in this chapter prior to configuring BusinessConnect Container Edition participants with RosettaNet protocol.

Exchanging Information with Your Trading Partner

Before you start conducting e-commerce with your trading partner, you must perform the following tasks:

  1. Agree on the shared RosettaNet business documents. Trading partners that use RosettaNet to conduct e-commerce must agree on the RosettaNet PIP documents they wish to exchange. They can exchange this information via email, the web, or any other method.
  2. Agree on whether to use document authentication as well as the authentication method.
  3. Exchange the following information:
  • Domain Identity: The DUNS IDs for you and your trading partner. If you do not wish to use the default DUNS domain, then you must agree on an alternate one and exchange IDs for that domain.
  • Server URLs:You and your trading partner need to use each other’s server URL to conduct e-commerce transactions. If you agree upon multiple protocols, you must exchange server URLs for each of the agreed protocols.

Server URLs for TIBCO BusinessConnect Container Edition - RosettaNet Protocol follow the following format

protocol://hostName:portNumber/RosettaNet

For example:

http://www.myhost.com:30003/dmz/RosettaNet

https://www.myhost.com:30004/dmz/RosettaNet

  • Email Addresses: If you wish to use email as a transport option, then you must exhange email addresses.
  • Public Certificates: In order to use HTTPS or HTTPSCA for your RosettaNet transactions, as well as utilize digital signatures for document authentication, you must also exchange public certificates.
  • Partner Classification Codes: RosettaNet protocol-specific information
  • Supply Chain Codes: RosettaNet protocol-specific information
  • Trading Partner Roles: RosettaNet protocol-specific information
  • Location IDs: RosettaNet protocol-specific information

Configuring Transports

Before you configure a BusinessConnect Container Edition participant’s transport protocol, you must enable the transport protocols.

TIBCO BusinessConnect Container Edition - RosettaNet Protocol supports four types of transports: HTTP, HTTPS, HTTPSCA, and email.

To configure the transport settings for your server, see TIBCO BusinessConnect Container Edition Trading Partner Management guide.

If you wish to use HTTPS or HTTPSCA, you can upload the certificates in Credentials tab for the particular partner, which is accessible at Partner Management > Partners > Credentials . For more information, see TIBCO BusinessConnect Container Edition Trading Partner Management.