Cross company communication

[Former Member]

Hi all,

In the case of cross company communication (B2B), we have a very simple payload with headers. We are going ahead with HTTP ADAPTER instead of SOAP. Is it a industy standard to go with SOAP's? My B2B partner is ok with plain HTTP..But in case of security, he would like a a third party certificate instead of SSL.Also I would like to understand basic B2B communication. Would it be encrypted? or if in the case of NO encryption, I can use my firewall for providing network security and go ahead with message level security.

I would appreciate comments on this strategy.

-Teresa

[Former Member]

Hi Teresa

In my opinion we use SOAP for security reasons as it comes with the header which you can authenticate on the reciever side. It is not a industry standard but purely depends upon the requirement

I worked on one similar scenario where we implemented Security network by opening ports meaninful to do operation in/out of XI only.

- Lalit -