Product Connectivity

Inbound Data Flow

The gateway services such as HTTP/HTTPS/HTTPCA are hosted to receive B2B communications directly from the Internet with security features such as SSL and SSH. The firewall between the Gateway Server and the rest of your system protects against the threat of malicious communications. TIBCO BusinessConnect Container Edition Gateway Server is a standalone Java executable that is not dependent on TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks. However, it still needs TIBCO Enterprise Message Service to communicate with the Interior Server.

TIBCO Enterprise Message Service is also used for transferring small size messages such as HTTPs service keys and so on between the Gateway Server and Interior Server

For other FTP/FTPS/SSHFTP inbound pollers, Interior Server directly connects to the FTP server.

Outbound Data Flow

Interior Server directly sends out the requests to the Gateway Server.

This server is located inside the company’s firewall and handles all messaging level activities, such as message packaging and unpacking, encryption and decryption, signature and verification, and so on, according to numerous transport and vertical business standards.

For detailed information on the data flow, see TIBCO BusinessConnect Container Edition Concepts

If you use secure transport to exchange data with the trading partner, there are many security configuration in TIBCO BusinessConnect Container Edition that can guarantee the secure data exchange. For more information on security configuration, see Security.