Summary

Frends offers seamless integration with AS4, enabling you to securely exchange structured business data such as EDI or XML using SOAP-based messaging over HTTP. AS4 is an OASIS ebMS 3.0 profile designed for secure and reliable B2B communication, providing message-level security, digital signatures, encryption, and built-in message receipts.

By leveraging Frends' task-based approach, you can configure and customize AS4 integrations according to your specific requirements. Frends provides tasks for sending AS4 messages and for validating, parsing, and acknowledging incoming AS4 messages.

Use cases

Below you will find examples of typical use cases for AS4 and how they could be implemented in Frends.

Validating and parsing AS4 messages

By using the HTTP trigger in conjunction with the AS4 ValidateAndParsePayload task, we can build an integration that receives incoming AS4 messages. The message is validated, the payload is extracted for further processing, and an MDN receipt is generated and returned to the sender.

Sending AS4 messages

We can create an integration that picks up EDI, XML, or other business documents from a specified path, packages them as an AS4 message, applies the configured security, and securely transmits the message to the partner system over HTTP using SOAP-based messaging with the AS4 SendMessage task.