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Overview

The exchange of business documents is known as the process flow. In any TIBCO BusinessConnect process flow, two types of messages are exchanged:

•	Private messages

•	Public messages   See Managing Services Plug-in Operations.

About Private Messages

Private messages are exchanged between a private process and the local TIBCO BusinessConnect installation. Private messages can contain a request, response, or notification document. The private process handles conversion from internal to public data and back.

•	On the Initiator side, the private process converts internal data to a notification document.

•	On the Responder side, the private process receives a request and converts it to internal company format.

You can generate private messages from TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks private processes that use the TIBCO BusinessConnect Palette.

The TIBCO BusinessConnect server has two major roles:

•	Initiator   This role receives request messages from private processes and transmits the Services Plug-in documents to your trading partners.

•	Responder    This role receives Services Plug-in documents from trading partners and submits the converted request messages to their private processes.

The following sections describe the messages used for private request and response document exchange in the Services Plug-in. The message fields are packaged in the ^data^ control tag as part of the aeRvMsg format.

See TIBCO BusinessConnect Trading Partner Administration Guide, Chapter 7, Private Process Configuration for more information.

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