Technical detail
The IBM® WebSphere® DataPower B2B Appliance XB60 extends your ESB beyond the enterprise by supporting the following B2B functionality:

B2B Gateway Service
-AS1, AS2, AS3 and plain-text email packaging/unpackaging
-EDI, XML and Binary Payload routing
-Front Side Protocol Handlers
-Trading Partner Profile Management
-Multiple Destinations (Back Side Protocol Handlers)
-Certificate Management (Security)
-Hard Drive Archive/Purge policyB2B Viewer
-B2B transaction viewing
-Transaction resend capabilities
-Acknowledgement correlation
-Transaction event correlation
-Role based accessPersistent Storage
-Encrypted with a box specific key
-B2B document storageTransaction Store
-B2B metadata storage
-B2B state management
The XB60 includes exceptional security…
Sign, verify, encrypt & decrypt
XML Encryption & XML Digital Signature at:
-Message-level
-Part-of-message or field-level
-Headers, as building block of other security specsAS1, AS2, AS3 and plain-text email Messaging Security:
-S/MIME Security
-Digital Signatures
-Payload EncryptionField-level security configurable from the WebGUI
Rapidly configurable Web Application Firewall security to protect against cross-site scripting, SQL injection, and a wide variety of XML threats
Verify-all option (data-driven verification of all signatures)
DataPower’s own implementation, listed in W3C Interop matrix:
-XML-Signature Interoperability (link resides outside of ibm.com)
-XML Encryption Implementation and Interoperability Report (link resides outside of ibm.com)Agility for interoperability or customization
Secure Attachment Processing:
-Supports the full SOAP with Attachments specification (MIME/DIME)
-WS-SecurityLast-mile Security for SOA
…and exceptional integration capability…
The IBM Hardware ESB
-Sophisticated multistage pipeline processing and content-based message routingDrop-in integration for heterogeneous environments
-Any-to-Any data transformation between a wide range of data formats (WTX tooling, XSLT, etc.)
-Optimized bridging between wireline messaging protocols (HTTP, MQ, JMS, FTP, etc.):Security
-Data validation
-Field-level security operations
-Web services management and access control
-Centralized Service Level Management, Service Virtualization, Policy Management
-All security functions of XS40 includedInnovative enablement of existing infrastructure for XML and Web services
-Communicate directly with remote Database instancesPolicy driven approach to Web Services management and SOA governance
Direct to Database access
Easy Configuration & Management:
-WebGUI, CLI, IDE and Eclipse configuration to address broad organizational needs (Architects, Developers, Network Operations, Security)Simplicity, Robustness, Governance, Speed
