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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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