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 policy

• B2B Viewer
  -B2B transaction viewing
  -Transaction resend capabilities
  -Acknowledgement correlation
  -Transaction event correlation
  -Role based access

• Persistent Storage
  -Encrypted with a box specific key
  -B2B document storage

• Transaction 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 specs

• AS1, AS2, AS3 and plain-text email Messaging Security:
  -S/MIME Security
  -Digital Signatures
  -Payload Encryption

• Field-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-Security

• Last-mile Security for SOA

…and exceptional integration capability…

• The IBM Hardware ESB
  -Sophisticated multistage pipeline processing and content-based message routing

• Drop-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 included

• Innovative enablement of existing infrastructure for XML and Web services
  -Communicate directly with remote Database instances

• Policy 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