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> Protocol Features
> The Services Plug-in has the following features:
> Support for Public Transports
> 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.
> To learn more about public transports and their configuration, see TIBCO BusinessConnect Concepts, Chapter 5, TIBCO BusinessConnect Transports and Protocols.
> Support for Private Transports
> The Services Plug-in supports the following private transports: TIBCO Rendezvous and JMS.
> These private transports are explained in TIBCO BusinessConnect Concepts, Private Processes.
> Support for Operations
> The following operations are supported in the Services Plug-in:

> • | Notify Operation

> Notify operation is a one way operation. It can send a document to the trading partner and receive the acknowledgement. It is not capable of receiving the response from the trading partner.

> • | 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.

> • | 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.
> XML Validation
> 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
> 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.
> Duplicate Message Detection
> The Services Plug-in allows both incoming and outgoing public messages to be verified for duplicates.
> For more details, see Duplicate Message Detection.
> Other Supported Features

> • | Electronic signing and message encryption or decryption.

> To learn more about security in BusinessConnect, see TIBCO BusinessConnect Concepts, Chapter 8, Security.

> • | Audit logging, including the user transactionID in the audit log.

> To learn more about audit logging in TIBCO BusinessConnect Services Plug-in, see Audit Logs.

> • | Exchange of notices with trading partners.

> • | XML, plain text, and binary data blobs.

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