Event notification features

The following table details the event notification features supported by the connector.

Category Feature Support Notes
Connector properties Event distribution N/A Currently, all events from an Ariba Buyer
instance (even if multi-node and/or multi-
server) go through a single multi-threaded
connector instance.


Ariba Buyer provides event notification, so
no event polling or event table is required.


PollQuantity N/A Ariba Buyer provides event notification, so
no event polling or event table is required.
Event table Event status values N/A Ariba Buyer provides event notification, so
no event polling or event table is required.

Object key N/A Ariba Buyer provides event notification, so
no event polling or event table is required.

Object name N/A Ariba Buyer provides event notification, so
no event polling or event table is required.

Priority N/A Ariba Buyer provides event notification, so
no event polling or event table is required.
Misc. Archiving N/A Ariba Buyer keeps track of event status,
thus there is no need to archive events.

CDK method
gotApplEvent
No gotApplEvent() is called, but not from within
pollForEvents() because the connector does
not poll. It is event-driven.

Delta event notification Full

Event sequence N/A Ariba Buyer provides event notification, so
an event table is not needed. No other
explicit sequencing is required.

Future event processing N/A Ariba Buyer has the ability to schedule
events. The connector only receives events
at times when the event should be sent.

In-Progress event recovery N/A The connector does not implement this
functionality because Ariba Buyer handles
recovery of failed events.


Ariba Buyer provides event notification, so
no event polling or event table is required.


Physical delete event No Although the connector will forward the
request as a BO with the Delete verb, it
cannot identify key values nor set non-key
values to CxIgnore.
However, the intended effect can be achieved
by the solution integrator if desired.

RetrieveAll Partial The connector does not support the
RetrieveAll feature. However, when
Ariba Buyer sends data to the connector
for event notification, it does send every
field in the hierarchical business object
that has its metadataIntegratable flag
set to true in the Ariba Buyer object
model.

Smart filtering N/A Ariba Buyer provides event notification, so
no event polling or event table is required.

Verb stability N/A Ariba Buyer provides event notification, so
no event polling or event table is required.

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