Rosettanet Exception handling in B2B

Exception/Error handling in Rosettanet

RosettaNet is an e-business standard based on XML which is predominently used in the High Tech Industries for the supply chain management needs. This standard talk about rapid, reliable process interaction between different trading Partner, and also about transport and packaging requirement.

Partner Interface Process (PIP) defines the sequence of steps required to execute a business process between two trading partners. PIPs are specialized, XML-based dialogs that define the structure, sequence of steps, role activities, data elements, values, and value types for each business document message exchanged between trading partners.

The RosettaNet Implementation Framework (RNIF) is a collection of specifications used to implement message exchange between trading partners over the Internet. It covers Transport,Packaging,Authorization,Authentication,Encryption and
Nonrepudiation.

Rosettanet Specification refers to two types of errors, in-band and out-of-band.

1. in-band error : This occurs during collaboration such as General exception and Receipt Acnowledge exception.

2. out- of -band error : This ocurs outside collaboration resulting in generation of 0A1. For e.g failure related to
time to perform, retry count etc. Currently B2B is not supporting this.

Exception scenarios

1. Outbound PO Processing : Back end application send the message to B2B, for any exception B2B sends the B2B Exception to Back end application.

2. Inbound PO Processing : For any message which failed during inbound PO processing, B2B sends RNIF exception to trading partner, Trading partner in turn has to consume the RNIF exception and generate a B2B exception corresponds to it.

3. Outbound POA Processing :For any message which failed during outbound POA processing, B2B sends RNIF exception to trading partner and B2B Exception to Back end application. Trading partner consumes the RNIF exception and sends B2B Exception to Back end application.

4. Inbound POA Processing :For any message which failed during inbound POA processing,B2B sends B2B Exception to Back end application.