Oracle A75089-02 - Manual (Page 21)

How Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Works
Overview 1-3
How Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Works
Oracle e-Commerce Gateway is designed with an open and flexible architecture for
easy integration with trading partners and / or EDI translators. The e-Commerce
Gateway provides a seamless application to application integration solution. When
used for EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) solutions, e-Commerce Gateway
integrates with EDI translators to provide specific EDI standard formats and
versions.
Oracle e-Commerce Gateway is a file-based integration layer between Oracle
Applications and any other external application. It uses ASCII (American Standard
Code for Information Interchange) formatted interface data files.
Transaction data originating from an external trading party is formatted and
transmitted to the receiving trading partner. Once received, the data may go
through another formatting process, an EDI translator for example, resulting in an
interface data file based on the standard layout defined in the e-Commerce
Gateway. The e-Commerce Gateway then processes the interface data file and
passes the data to the receiving application for additional business rule validation
and transaction creation.
Transaction data originating from Oracle Applications is processed by the
e-Commerce Gateway and formatted into a standard interface data file. The
e-Commerce Gateway then routes the data to the next step in the process flow. The
process flow may include processing by an EDI translator for EDI-specific
formatting or may involve transmission to the receiving trading partner. Each of
these processing steps are integrated and automated so transaction data can flow
seamlessly in either direction from trading partner to trading partner with little if
any human intervention.
Inbound Transactions
For inbound transactions, the e-Commerce Gateway does the following:
The e-Commerce Gateway receives a file from any source in the standard
transaction interface data file format defined in the e-Commerce Gateway.
The e-Commerce Gateway then processes the data by first validating the trading
partner sending the transaction against trading partners defined in e-Commerce
Gateway. The e-Commerce Gateway then processes any enabled code conversion,
process rules, and column rules.
Transactions that pass process and column rules are mapped and written to
specified Oracle Applications open interface tables for application-specific business
rule validation. Transactions that do not pass these validation / code conversion