Overview

The Sterling B2B  Integrator Advanced Business Process Modeling course teaches you how to use message options, collect and move data, capture errors, send notifications, and update a database.  You will learn about service configurations, the Assign Service, the Invoke Business Process Service, importing resources, and the lightweight JDBC Adapter. This course is a three day course.

Audience

This course is designed for EDI End User, Web Developer, System Administrator, and Business  Analyst.

Prerequisites

This course assumes you have the following foundation knowledge:

• J2EE Framework and N-Tiered Architectures
• Database schemas and related concepts
• SQL Scripting
• Sterling B2B Integrator

Specialty or advanced Sterling B2B Integrator  knowledge in the following areas:

• EDI Processing
• AS2 Implementation
• Secure Transports
• Web Services
• Trading Partner Management
• JSP Development

Objective

After completing this course, students should be able to:

• Differentiate between services, adapters, and activities as they relate to building business processes.
• Configure a business process using the message output options.
• Apply the Assign Service along with DOM or Doc features in a business process.
• Create a business process to capture errors and to notify the user of an error.
• Create a business process to manage 997s.
• Create a business process to send data to different storage locations.
• Use the JDBC Adapter to create a business process to receive configuration values from a database

Course Outline

The following topics will be covered during this course:

• Course Overview
• Lesson 1. Basic BPML concepts
• Lesson 2. Service Editor Configuration Options
  • Exercise. Service Editor Configuration Options
• Lesson 3. Using the Assign
  • Exercise. Using the Assign
• Lesson 4. Error Handling
  • Exercise. Error Handling
• Lesson 5. Importing Style Sheets
  • Exercise. Importing Style Sheets
• Lesson 6. Read Values from Flat File
  • Exercise. Reading Values from a Flat File
• Lesson 7. Using a Database
  • Exercise. Using a Database
• Lesson 8. Course Wrap-up