AS2 Connector

Properties   Configuration Settings  

The AS2 Connector adds AS2 send and receive capabilities to MuleSoft.

Remarks

The AS2 Connector adds AS2 send and receive capabilities to your Mule Project. Built on top of the Drummond/eBusinessReady Certified EDI Integrator / AS2 Engine, the connector allows you to easily incorporate secure EDI (EDI-INT) exchange into your current e-Business process architecture.

AS2 Receive Connector

The AS2 Receive Connector requires another entity to listen for incoming HTTP requests and to send responses back to the client. An HTTP Listener may be used in conjunction with the AS2 Receive Connector to create a fully-functional AS2 server.

The HTTP Listener will receive the incoming request and provide it to the AS2 Receiver Connector. The AS2 Receive Connector will process the request by decrypting, verifying, and generating a MDN receipt. The response will may then be assigned back to the HTTP Listener to relay to the client.

By default, the connector sets the required MessageSecurity on incoming AS2 requests to the highest level. If your messages require security, you must set an EncryptionCert and/or SignerCert. It is also recommended that you set an MDNSigningCert in order to provide non-repudiation for your AS2 response.

In a typical scenario a HTTP listener is used to receive the request and send the response. The AS2 connector will process the request and generate the response, but will rely on the user to pass the response parameters to the HTTP listener so it can respond to the original HTTP request.

After processing the request the connector will populate ResponseHeaders and ResponseBody.

In the HTTP listener Responses section set the Body to #[attributes.ResponseBody]. Add a new header with value 'Content-Type' and value attributes.ResponseHeaders.'Content-Type'.

The corresponding Configuration XML may look like:

<http:response >
				<http:body ><![CDATA[#[attributes.ResponseBody]]]></http:body>
				<http:headers ><![CDATA[#[output applicaton/java
---
{
	"Content-Type" : attributes.ResponseHeaders.'Content-Type'
}]]]></http:headers>
</http:response>

AS2 Send Connector

The AS2 Send Connector adds a complete AS2 client within your Mule Project. In order to use it, you must set a minimum of three required properties: AS2To, AS2From and URL. It is also recommended that you set MDNTo, RecipientCert, ReceiptSignerCert, and SigningCert in order to ensure security, reliability, and non-repudiation.

The AS2 Send Connector has support for SSL transport layer security. This may be enabled by setting the SSLCert and SSLAcceptServerCert to appropriate values.

Certification and Interoperability

The AS2 Connector for Mule Project has been built on top of the EDI Integrator / AS2 Engine which has successfully completed the latest Drummond/eBusinessReady Certified program for AS2 interoperability. The product has undergone rigorous compliance testing and QA, demonstrating successful interoperability with all other DGI (UCC) AS2 certified products.

The eBusinessReady program provides neutral third party testing of solutions for interoperability and compliance. eBusinessReady is a joint partnership of the UCC (Uniform Code Council, Inc) and DGI (Drummond Group, Inc).