Integrating Marketplaces by Using the Marketplace Adapter 

The following documentation contains a description of how you can connect a marketplace to the Integration Server by using the marketplace adapter. The marketplace can assume the role of either a sender system or a receiver system, or both.

Use

You can use the marketplace adapter to exchange messages between marketplaces and the Integration Server. For this purpose, the XI message format is converted to the marketplace format MarketSet Markup Language (MML) and the other way around. For more information about the marketplace adapter, see: Marketplace Adapter

Description

Using the marketplace adapter, you can connect the Integration Server to a marketplace and then exchange messages across this marketplace. The marketplace adapter receives a message from the marketplace, converts the MML protocol into the XI message protocol and then sends the message to the Integration Server to be processed further.

To forward a message to a receiver marketplace, the marketplace adapter receives the message from the Integration Server, converts the message protocol from XI to MML, and then sends the message on to the receiver marketplace.

Example

An SAP business system needs to send a message to a marketplace.

·        The message is sent through the Integration Server to the marketplace adapter.

·        The marketplace adapter removes the XI envelope and puts the message in an MML envelope.

·        The marketplace adapter sends the message to the marketplace.