BIE解剖－SBIE

What is RRC?

说明：Redberri Remote Client (RRC)对应的是开源版本中的SBIE

Supply Chain Integration with Redberri Remote Client

The Redberri Remote Client (RRC)is a Webservice client for the commercial version of BIE. Imagine the possibilities ofbeing able to translate, transform and transmit data at any given interval fromyour small business trading partners. You hold the remote control to the data.

RRC was designed with three goals in mind:transport data to and from BIE, have a small resource footprint, and be entirelymanaged from a remote location.

RRC is very affordable, licensed on a perinstance basis under a commercial license agreement. It is also included withRedberri 6.0, the commercially licensed and branded version of BIE. To learnmore about Redberri go to www.redberri.com

RRC communicates with Redberri via Webservices. It generally uses SSL to encrypt all communications, but can workwithout SSL if necessary.

RRC triggers all communications andconnects on demand with BIE. This allows RRC to work through firewalls andproxy servers. The client-only only communication also means that the machinethat RRC is running on does not need to have a static IP address. This is idealwhen the RRC user is working over a modem, DSL, or in a cable modem environmentwhere IP addresses tend to change frequently.

RRC was designed with low-speed high-faultconnections like dial-up in mind. RRC has been tested with as low as a 14.4kbps modem. It also gracefully recovers from down or severed connections,resending its message at a later time if communication is not successful. RRC allows easy connectivity between tradingpartners that do not have cutting-edge technology in place.

Features

Remote configuration. An administrator canconfigure all RRCs connecting to that Redberri from the Dashboard. This makesfor very convenient remote configuration. Also, since Redberri's dashboard isweb-based, the administrator can log in from home, the office, or on the roadto configure all the RRCs.

Remote upgrades. The administrator need nothave personnel at the RRC installation for an upgrade. All of RRC's components(except for the bootstrapper) can be upgraded from the Redberri's dashboard.

Small footprint. RRC has been tested on manyoperating systems including Mac OSX, Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP, and Linux. Itrequires only 32MB of RAM and less than 30MB of disk space (which includes theJRE). Specialized installs can also be created for even lower requirements.

Low requirements. Though Java 1.4 isrecommended for RRC, it will also run on Java 1.3. RRC will work over slowdial-up connections as low as 14.4 kbps.

Scheduled communications. RRC services are scheduledto run at the intervals the administrator sets. This means that RRC will not becommunicating with Redberri constantly, but rather only when it needs to, thus,reducing bandwidth overhead.

Pluggable services. RRC's service modules arepluggable using a simple Java API. This allows new services to be added to RRCquickly and easily. The best part is that the services are installed remotelyfrom Redberri's Dashboard.

附言：

BIE网站上未提供SBIE下载，但BIE sourceforge的CVS中有源码。下载后整理，可用。

启动客户端之前需在BIE dashboard中修改global setting，将remote client management设为enabled（默认是Disabled）。设置保存后需重启BIE服务，之后在System菜单下增加了两个与RRC有关的菜单项。

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