Oracle B2B 11g: Concepts and Implementation (D83487)

B2B Overview

• Describing and addressing the requirements of E-Commerce
• Explaining how Oracle B2B fits into a SOA implementation
• Describing the Oracle B2B building blocks
• Identifying typical Oracle B2B deployment topologies

Oracle B2B Standards and Concepts

• Describing what B2B standards address
• Identify the basic components of B2B transactions
• Identifying trading partners and documents by using the different B2B protocols
• Describing Oracle B2B capabilities

Document Management: Creating Guidelines

• Describing the main steps in the Oracle B2B process flow
• Identifying the different document protocols supported in Oracle B2B
• Listing the Oracle B2B Document Editor components
• Creating guidelines by using Oracle B2B Document Editor

Document Management: Creating Document Definition

• Describing document hierarchy
• Creating document definitions by using the Oracle B2B interface
• Describing the protocol parameters for different document protocols

Partner Management: Creating Profiles

• Creating trading partner profiles
• Creating trading partner users
• Adding document definitions
• Configuring delivery channels

Creating and Deploying Agreements

• Describing trading partner agreements
• Listing the main steps for creating agreements
• Managing agreements

Channels and SOA Applications

• Describing and Using B2B Channels
• Describing how Channels are used with Agreements
• Distinguishing between internal channels and external channels
• Distinguishing between listening channels and trading partner delivery channels
• Describing the main components of a SOA application that can be used with B2B

Web Services Support in B2B

• Describing the Web Services features available in B2B
• Setting up B2B to receive and respond to a message sent using Web Services
• Setting up B2B to send an outgoing message using Web Services protocol

Reporting: Oracle B2B

• Describing reporting functionality in Oracle B2B
• Creating different types of reports

Diagnostics

• Describing the usage of Oracle B2B metrics
• Diagnosing different types of errors
• Describing B2B system and partner metrics
• Listing the steps to integrate with BAM for real-time reports
• Outlining use cases for the Instance Message Java API

Security

• Describing users and roles in Oracle B2B
• Describing document obfuscation and document provisioning
• Explaining the functionality of the secure sockets layer

System Management

• Deploying and managing agreements
• Creating identifier types
• Importing and exporting B2B design-time data
• Batching EDI messages
• Scheduling partner down time
• Configuring listening channels
• Purging data
• Configuring B2B parameters

B2B Java API

• Listing the available B2B Java APIs
• Describing the functionalities of Java Callouts
• Describing the use cases of transport level callout and agreement level callout
• Configuring Java callouts in Oracle B2B Console
• Writing basic Java callouts
• Using Instance Message APIs to access runtime data

B2B Tools and Utilities

• Using web service-based tools
• Using command-line tools
• Creating bulk B2B metadata with SelfService utility