webMethods之Trading Networks

笔者对Trading  Networks的认识还只是概念而已，由于读了相应的文档，所以把一些笔记整理在这里

普遍意义上的Trading Network是指“a set of organizations that have agreed to exchange business documents”

webMethods Trading Networks是运行在IS上的一个组件，其功能是与其他组织（公司、市场等）的系统联系“to form a business-to-business trading network.” 

在Trading Networks有Partner这样的概念。它是构成Trading Network的元素，“send documents to Trading Networks for processing and/or that will receive documents that Trading Networks is instructed to deliver”

有关Partner的Information有两方面：一个是Profile，记录的是“information about a corporation that is a part of a trading network.”

另一个是TPA（Trading partner agreements），是一组定义Trading的参数约定，是可选的。文档里的说法是：“  A Trading Partner Agreement (TPA) is an optional set of parameters that you can define and use to tailor how documents are exchanged between two trading partners.”