Loopback Tutorial

This tutorial contains detailed steps that describe how you can use Microsoft® BizTalk Accelerator for RosettaNet (BTARN) to simulate a process implementation between the home and partner organization on a single computer.

In a real production environment, your partner organization implementation resides on a remote computer. This tutorial uses the Loopback utility to create a mirror trading agreement to simulate the trading partner on the same computer. Using a single computer loop-back scenario works for development and test purposes. It is recommended that you do not to use the Loopback utility in a production environment.

This loopback scenario does not support signing messages, and thus does not support non-repudiation.

This scenario supports encryption of messages if you have a certification authority configured, and you have a private key for encryption available for test purposes.

In this tutorial, you create a home organization, a partner organization, a trade agreement, use the Loopback utility to create a mirror agreement, and then run a sample process to verify the loop-back scenario.

In This Section

• Preparing for the Tutorial

• Step 1: Create the Home Organization

• Step 2: Create the Partner Organization

• Step 3: Edit the Partner Interface Process

• Step 4: Create a Trade Agreement

• Step 5: Create a Mirror Agreement

• Step 6: Start Orchestrations

• Step 7: Create a Sample LOB Message

• Step 8: View Messages in the BTARN Databases