TIBCO MDM Customization Guide - TIBCO Product Documentation

Customizing Format-Specific Attributes on GUI| 165Different Plug-ins Used for Synchronization• ResponseHandlers — They are the gateway to the application. They help inrouting of new messages, and also handle response to messages sent out.• Operation Identifiers — This plug-in uses a rulebase to identifysynchronization operations to perform, based on the synchronization historyof a record in a given datapool.• Messaging Handlers — This plug-in decides on the order in which messagesneed to be sent. It also determines the records that need to go together in aparticular message.Configuring Variables Used in the Plugin Selection• ConnectorRole —This variable identifies the role an organization plays on agiven datapool, namely, Supplier, Retailer. The ConnectorRole used can beconfigured using a rulebase pointed to by the Configurator > Connector >Connector Role Rulebase option. It is also possible to specify the role directlyas a workflow parameter to the IdentifyProtocolOperations activity.The rulebase itself uses 4 variables:SENDER_ORGANIZATION_NAME, SENDER_ORGANIZATION_TYPE,RECEIVER_ORGANIZATION_NAME and RECEIVER_ORGANIZATION_TYPE.Where a sender organization is the organization that is trying to send themessage (usually a SUPPLIER or RETAILER). The receiver organization isusually the marketplace or the trading partner who is to receive the message.• ConnectorProtocol — This variable identifies the protocol to be used whilecommunicating with a datapool. It differs based on the datapool, that is,1Sync or Agentrics. The ConnectorRole used can be configured using therulebase pointed to by the Configurator > Connector > Connector RoleRulebase option.Configuring Operation IdentifiersThe kind of OperationsIdentifier picked depends upon the two variablesmentioned in the above section.Operations and SuboperationsTIBCO MDM allows you to control the operations and sub-operations generatedfor data synchronization. Operations and sub-operations are returned in theformat: OPERATION:SUB-OPERATION.TIBCO MDM Customization Guide