Typical pain points enterprise in Batch File Transfer among the trading partners are:
1) Ever-increasing FTP servers across their enterprise which was increasingly becoming tough to manage and maintain.
2) Custom code for compression/decompression logic before/after file transfers
3) Bunch of third-party utilities for scheduling file transfers
4) Java code exposed as API for PGP encryption/decryption
Obviously they had a lot of integration touch-points while putting together a file transfer solution - which also meant multiple points of failure and not to mention the maintenance/debugging nightmare if something were to go wrong.
One of the cool features of Oracle MFT is that it supports out-of-the-box integration with many technologies including OSB. For many OSB users, the following could be some of the use-cases where they could take advantage of MFT and reap benefits;
Traditional OSB implementations used File/FTP adapters for file transfers - No real visibility into the transfers and not the best of designs to manage/maintain.
With Oracle MFT exposed as a webservice it is now just a seamless webservice invocation - with the added benefits such as real-time visibility, OOTB scheduling, Compression, PGP encryption, ease of maintenance to name a few..
Use-Case 1: OSB triggers a MFT transfer
In this use-case OSB would trigger a MFT transfer. MFT would then fan-out the transfer;
a) Decompress, Decrypt and store in file system
b) Initiate a SOA process to do further processing (human task etc..)
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