

The transportation channels that can be used for message exchange are quite vast as well: different trading partner can communicate with the platform using 8 different transportation protocols, both for inbound and outbound. Standardize formats EDI, XML that implicitly define the envelope type to follow, all the others, including CIMP, are decoupled from the type of envelope that can wrap the message, and we are talking about 99 different and customizable envelope types built to be used with any document format. Another important and distinctive requirement was the relation between the envelope types in the exchanged messages.

Main document standards are Air Cargo market defined standards as IATA - Cargo Interchange Message Procedures (CIMP), EDI CargoFact and CargoXML, as long other customer tailored documents based in FlatFile, XML and other custom format totalling 238 different document types. The document standards involved elevated B2B core product for the implementation due to its enhanced features available for document management. Mission and scope The mission was to build a high available and performant message hub between different intervenients in the air cargo industry integrating 15 thousand trading partners exchanging 3 Billion messages every year and execute complex document validation, multi-factor identification, correlation and batching, dynamic routing, transformations and monitoring. Imagine now how many messages were processed when you finish reading it. In this article, you will find described high availability solution architecture, covering B2B and core SOA Suite components as BPEL, along with Business Rules, Mediator and BAM integration, as well as lessons learned in conducting such complex and mission-critical project starting from a set of legacy applications. Ok…, in the meanwhile 2 seconds has passed and 250 messages more were processed by a mission critical hub built with Oracle B2B and SOA Suite which connects thousands of trading partners and processes millions of messages per day, handling 40% of Global Air cargo Traffic. Oracle SOA Suite/B2B as a Critical Mission Hub for a High Volume Message Use Case Introduction Stop.
