Server components for B2B in GIS are FTP, SFTP, HTTP, WS – HTTP over SOAP, C:D Server Adapters

 FTP Server Adapter in GIS/SI

• FTP Server is tightly integrated with the Application mailbox system. An FTP client can only access the mailbox that is assigned to its user account.
• This adapter receives and processes requests from external trading partners that are submitted using the FTP protocol. This adapter is used with a Application Perimeter server.
• Use this adapter to put files into a Application mailbox or get files from a Application mailbox.
• mailbox activities can trigger routing rules
  

SFTP Server Adapter in GIS/SI

• Uses Mailbox subsystem as its repository (virtual roots)
• Receives and processes requests from external trading partners that are submitted through the SFTP protocol or SCP protocol
• Use this adapter to enable external SFTP clients or SCP clients to put files into a Application Mailbox or get files from a Application Mailbox.
• Routing rules for items placed in Mailbox can be used to trigger a business process
  

CD Server Adapter

• This adapter receives and processes requests from remote Connect:Direct nodes.
• Mediate requests originating from a business process and going to an external trading partner using a (non-application) Connect:Direct node or another Connect:Direct Server adapter.
• Accept requests from a Connect:Direct node (or another Connect:Direct Server adapter) to copy to or from a mailbox or business process
• Forward requests from one remote Connect:Direct node to another
  

HTTP Server Adapter

• Use this adapter to send documents to and receive documents from a trading partner using HTTP
• Uses Perimeter services
• Uses the same Jetty HTTP server engine as the GIS ASI console
• Able to run both WARs and BPML applications
• Runs application code inside the Application JVM for access to all Application resources
• Handles SOAP requests as well
  

Scenarios in which GIS can act as a server, by using any of above mentioned protocols looks like as follows: