Integration Directory

Question

Hi all,
Can any body please provide me link to some blog / tutorials which could give me the entire understanding about integration Directory. For example when is the business system used, what are the steps invloved in configuring various scenarios.
Any help will be appriciated.
Thanks and best regards,
Kulwant

Answer 1

Hi Kulwant,
Regarding to the Integration Directory..
First according to the scenario u have to decide whether to use a party, service without party in which it contains business system, business service , business scenario..
The creation of Objects will be like this ...
*Communication Party or Service
Communication Channel
Receiver Determination
Interface Determaination
Sender Agreement
Receiver Agreement*
Business scenario is used when a scenario is developed using BPM's
Based on your needs, you can select from the following service types:
Business System: Address a particular business system as the sender or receiver of messages.
A business system is an actual application system in a system landscape. A business system
(service) comprises information about the inbound and outbound interfaces and the software
component versions of the business system. The business system services are used when
configuring internal company processes.
Business Service: Address an abstract business entity as the sender or receiver of messages.
Using a business service, you can define the technical or business subunits of the companies
involved and then assign them the relevant interfaces. The business services are used when
configuring cross-company processes.
Business Process or Integration Process Service:  Address an integration process as the sender or receiver of messages.
Prerequisites
The business system must be entered in the SLD.
A communication party has been created.
1Create Business System as Service with Party
Procedure
1. In the Configuration: Integration Builder, navigate to Objects tab.
2. Expand Party.
3. Right-click on Business System and choose Assign Business System.
4. In Business System Wizard, skip the step 1 Introduction by choosing Continue.
5. In step 2 Assign Party, for example, enter Buyer.
6. In step 3, select systems from the list that you want to define as the business system
service.
7. Choose Finish.
Create Business Service as Service with Party
Procedure
1. In the Configuration: Integration Builder, navigate to Objects tab.
2. Expand Party.
3. Right-click on Business Service and choose New.
4. In the Create Object Wizard, choose a communication party. For example, select
Seller.
5. Enter a service name, for example, PCK_Service.
6. Enter a description for the service.
7. Choose Create and Save.
After Creating the Systems u need to choose the Adapter based on the scenario.. we call this as communication channel, and we shuld configure the communication channel to fetch the file from the source and to drop the files to the target directory..
Then it should follow with Logical Routing and Collaboration Agreements..
Logical Routing consists with Receiver Determination and Interface Determination
Collaboration Agreements consists with Sender Agreement and Receiver Agreement..
In Receiver Determination u have to specift the what are all the receivers that are going to receive the message and u have a provision of delivering the message based on the payload by using an option of condition editor.
In Interface determination u will be specifying the Interface mapping which was developed in the design in between Outbound and Inbound Interfaces
In Sender agreement we give the communication channel which is developed in the sender side w.r.t the business system/service.
In Receiver agreement we give the communication channel which is developed in the receiver side w.r.t the business system/service.
for further clarifiction revert back with the queries..
regards
Kishore