1. Using B2B for Oracle Integration 3
  2. Introduction to B2B for Oracle Integration
  3. Design B2B Integrations in Projects or in Standalone Environments

Design B2B Integrations in Projects or in Standalone Environments

You can design your B2B schemas, documents, trading partners, and integrations inside projects or in standalone environments (outside of projects).

Oracle recommends designing your integrations in projects. Projects provide a single workspace for designing, managing, and monitoring integrations. Use projects to perform release management, manage access to automation solutions, and keep everything organized. See Get Started with Projects and Tour of the Projects Workspace in Using Integrations in Oracle Integration 3.

Access B2B resources as follows:
  • In projects:
    1. In the navigation pane, click Projects.
    2. Click the project in which to design a B2B integration.
    3. Click B2B B2B icon.
    4. Depending on the design task to perform, go to the Documents, Schemas, or Trading partners section.
    5. Use the Deploy tab in the Integrations Integration icon section to create project deployments that use B2B.
    6. Use the Observe tab to monitor B2B wire messages and business messages at runtime.
  • In standalone environments (that is, outside of projects):
    1. In the navigation pane, click B2B.
    2. Depending on the design task to perform, select Documents, Schemas, Trading partners, or Host profile.

What's Supported in Projects for B2B

  • Documents, schemas (standard and custom), and trading partners
  • Trading partners and agreement deployments
  • Transport deployment
  • Export and import of individual documents and schemas
  • Export and import of individual trading partners
  • Export, import, and deletion of a project that includes documents, schemas, and trading partners
  • Activation and deactivation of a project deployment that includes documents, schemas, and trading partners
  • B2B action design in integrations in trading partner mode
  • Viewing and managing B2B design-time backend integrations, Send integrations, and Receive integrations under the Design tab in the Integrations Integrations icon section of a project
  • Viewing B2B runtime backend integrations, Send integrations, and Receive integrations under the Observe tab in the Integrations Integrations icon section of a project
  • Tracking runtime business messages and wire messages under the Observe tab
  • Support in design time and runtime for the RosettaNet, AS2, AS4, FTP, and REST adapters
  • Viewing B2B integrations in the dependency diagram of a project

What's Not Supported in Projects for B2B

  • You cannot define the host profile. The host profile is only available in standalone environments (outside of a project).
  • You cannot create a B2B schema by importing a Standard Exchange Format (SEF) file.
  • You cannot share B2B artifacts (schemas, documents, and trading partners) created in one project with another project.
  • The B2B dashboard page is only available in standalone environments by selecting Observability, then Dashboards, and then B2B from the drop-down list.
  • You cannot resubmit or reprocess business messages or wire messages from the Observe tab in a project.
  • You cannot migrate B2B artifacts from Oracle SOA Suite to a project.