Summary

Frends offers seamless integration with AS3, enabling you to securely exchange structured business data such as EDI or XML using FTP as the transport protocol. AS3 provides message encryption, digital signatures, and receipt acknowledgments (MDNs), ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and reliable delivery of your transmissions.

By leveraging Frends' task-based approach, you can configure and customize AS3 integrations according to your specific requirements. Frends provides tasks for sending AS3 messages over FTP, receiving and processing incoming AS3 messages, and receiving and validating MDN receipts for messages sent to partner systems.

Use cases

Below you will find examples of typical use cases for AS3 and how they could be implemented in Frends.

Sending AS3 messages and validating MDN receipts

We can create an integration that picks up EDI, XML, or other business documents from a specified path, packages them as an AS3 message, encrypts and signs the message, and securely transfers it to the partner's FTP server using the AS3 SendMessage task. After the message has been sent, the partner can return an MDN receipt confirming its delivery. The AS3 ReceiveAndValidateMdn task can be used to retrieve the MDN from the FTP server and validate it, ensuring that the acknowledgment is authentic and corresponds to the sent message.

Receiving AS3 messages

The ReceiveMessage task can be used to retrieve AS3 messages from a specified location on an FTP server. The task processes the incoming message, validates its contents, and extracts the payload for further processing.

After processing the message, the task generates an MDN receipt and stores it in the specified location, where it can be retrieved by the sending partner as confirmation of the message processing.