1 About the Oracle B2B Installation
About Oracle B2B
Oracle B2B is a SOA-compatible product that enables document and data exchange.
Oracle B2B is an e-commerce gateway that enables the secure and reliable exchange of business documents between an enterprise and its trading partners. See Protocols Supported in B2B in User's Guide for Oracle B2B for a list of the industry-standard e-commerce protocols supported in Oracle B2B.
Oracle B2B uses several features of Oracle SOA Suite to help you design, create, and manage applications.
Note:
You must install B2B from the B2B installation in order for any B2B functionality to operate. After a SOA installation, the B2B UI will be active but you must still install B2B separately if you want to use any B2B functionality (composite, B2B UI, or B2B runtime engine).About the Configuration Options for Oracle B2B
In a regular Oracle SOA Quick Start installation, users can only exchange Custom Documents, which is a limited function of Oracle B2B. If this function fulfills your business needs, you do not need to install Oracle B2B.
See Activating a Limited Oracle B2B Interface without a Full Installation in Installing SOA Suite and Business Process Management Suite Quick Start for Developers.
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You must install B2B from the B2B installation in order for any B2B functionality to operate. After a SOA installation, the B2B UI will be active but you must still install B2B separately if you want to use any B2B functionality (composite, B2B UI, or B2B runtime engine).Using the Standard Installation Topology As a Starting Point
The standard installation topology is a flexible topology that you can use as a starting point in production environments.
The information in this guide helps you to create a standard installation topology for Oracle B2B. If required, you can later extend the standard installation topology to create a secure and highly available production environment, see Next Steps After Configuring the Domain.
The standard installation topology represents a sample topology for this product. It is not the only topology that this product supports. See About the Standard Installation Topology in Planning an Installation of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
About the Oracle B2B Standard Installation Topology
This topology represents a standard WebLogic Server domain that contains an Administration Server and a cluster that contains two Managed Servers.
Figure 1-1 shows the standard installation topology for Oracle B2B.
See Table 1-1 for information on the elements for this topology.
Figure 1-1 Business Intelligence Standard Installation Topology
Description of "Figure 1-1 Business Intelligence Standard Installation Topology"
About Elements in the Standard Installation Topology Illustration
The standard installation topology typically includes common elements.
Table 1-1 describes all elements of the topology illustration:
Table 1-1 Description of Elements in Standard Installation Topologies
| Element | Description and Links to Related Documentation |
|---|---|
| APPHOST | A standard term used in Oracle documentation to refer to the machine that hosts the application tier. |
| DBHOST | A standard term used in Oracle documentation to refer to the machine that hosts the database. |
| WebLogic Domain | A logically related group of Java components (in this case, the Administration Server, Managed Servers, and other related software components) and non-Java components.
See What Is an Oracle WebLogic Server Domain? in Understanding Oracle Fusion Middleware. |
| Administration Server | Central control entity of a WebLogic domain. It maintains
configuration objects for that domain and distributes configuration
changes to Managed Servers.
See What Is the Administration Server? in Understanding Oracle Fusion Middleware. |
| Enterprise Manager | The Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control
is a primary tool used to manage a domain.
See Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control in Understanding Oracle Fusion Middleware. |
| Cluster | A collection of multiple WebLogic Server instances
running simultaneously and working together.
See Overview of Managed Servers and Managed Server Clusters in Understanding Oracle Fusion Middleware. |
| Machine | A logical representation of the computer that hosts one or more WebLogic Server instances (servers). Machines are also the logical glue between the Managed Servers and the Node Manager. In order to start or stop the Managed Servers using the Node Manager, associate the Managed Servers with a machine. |
| Managed Server | A host for your applications, application
components, web services, and their associated resources.
See Overview of Managed Servers and Managed Server Clusters in Understanding Oracle Fusion Middleware. |
| Infrastructure | A collection of services that include the
following:
|
About Secondary Topologies
Secondary topologies include configurations with components that require additional installation or configuration steps on top of the standard topology.
The main sections of this guide describe how to install and configure a standard installation topology. The secondary topologies contain several products that are not identified or included in the standard installation topologies.
For guidelines to install and configure secondary topologies, see Secondary Topologies for Oracle B2B.
Using This Document to Extend an Existing Domain
The procedures in this guide describe how to create a new domain. The assumption is that no other Oracle Fusion Middleware products are installed on your system.
If you have installed and configured other Oracle Fusion Middleware products on your system (for example, Fusion Middleware Infrastructure, with a domain that is up and running) and wish to extend the same domain to include Oracle B2B, see Installing Multiple Products in the Same Domain.