ORACLE -B2B

B2B or business to business is a gateway which allows the secure exhange of document between enterprises.

Oracle B2B comes along with SOA Suite 11g.So there is no separate install for B2B in 11g.

Once your managed SErver is started you can check in the command console that B2B component is also started.Moreover in the deployments you can check the staus of B2B if it is ok or not.



So it shows its health is ok and is active so now you can just open the b2b console in a separte window by typing following url

http://localhost:8001/b2b

here 8001 is the port number for your managed server as b2b comes up with SOA server component.

so once you will start you will get a console like this




so i will just guide you through the look and feel of 11g b2b.

To create a new document in b2b go to document tab and click on plus button.

YOu will get different type of document definition like rosettanet,hl7,edi_x12 and along with that you have your custom document definition type.

For two enterprises to communicate with each other there are some pre requisite like they should follow a common document,common protocol should have some unique identifier to recognize who is the other enterprise (we call the other enterprise as trading partner).They need to have one common aggreement.So thats basically is the work of b2b that it provides a secure gateway for two enterprises to excahnge document.