Should FTP on the system be ENABLED for SFTP Adapter to work from BPEL Code

Question

Hi,
I am trying to SFTP files from server1 to server2. I am getting the below fault message,
faultName: {{http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/extension}bindingFault} messageType: {{http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/extension}RuntimeFaultMessage} parts: {{ summary=<summary>Exception occured when binding was invoked. Exception occured during invocation of JCA binding: "JCA Binding execute of Reference operation 'Put' failed due to: Unable to read response. Unable to read response. Unable to read response from host: earth.as.local Please make sure that the ftp server settings are correct and that the ftp server is up. ". The invoked JCA adapter raised a resource exception. Please examine the above error message carefully to determine a resolution. </summary> ,detail=<detail>Read timed out</detail> ,code=<code>null</code>}
I have configured FTP Adapter JNDI name and other details correctly,
hostname, username, password, usesftp(true),port(22).
On the server2, the FTP was disabled and was getting the aforesaid error.
But when we enabled FTP on server2, the SFTP started working fine with the same configurations of JNDI.
So, to conclude, Should FTP on the system be ENABLED for SFTP Adapter to work from SOA BPEL Code?
Please give your valuable comments and suggestions.
Thanks & Regards,
Nagaraj Ganapa

Answer 1

Yes, if you are trying to write a file using SFTP/FTP to any machine, a SFTP/FTP server should be running on that machine and there should be a process listening on the correct port(22/21). This is true for any other application as well and not just for Oracle BPEL. You can not send a file to a server using SFTP/FTP when the FTP/SFTP process is not running on that server.