cXML punchOut protocol handler for AX2012

I’ve done a lot of posts about the OCI punchOut protocol. Probably the more common implementation you will see with customers and suppliers wanting to automate employee procurement experience is with the cXML protocol. In the USA most of the large office supply, hardware supply, computers suppliers have cXML enabled with their supplier shopping sites.

cXML or commerce eXtensible Markup Language is a protocol developed by Ariba in 1999 you can read more about it at http://cxml.org

In AX2012 there is a framework for punchOut but it doesn’t include code to handle the cXML messages. I’m providing a copy of a protocol handler as sample code that you can use as a framework for your own implementations. You can download this from http://ax2012r3cxml.codeplex.com

For setup notes please see this post

https://organicax.com/2016/09/27/cxml-punchout-protocol-handler-installation-for-ax2012-r3/

For setup of the external catalog once you have imported the code see this post

https://organicax.com/2016/09/27/external-catalog-setup-using-the-cxml-protocol-handler-for-punchout/

For an overview of the user flow using cXML see this post

https://organicax.com/2016/09/27/cxml-punchout-user-flow/

The cXML protocol handler supports a specific set of message for the punchOut see this post

https://organicax.com/2016/09/27/punchoutordermessageheader-operationsallowed/

For working with commodity codes from the cXML messages see this post

https://organicax.com/2016/09/27/cxml-punchout-commodity-code-handling/

For using the message log feature for troubleshooting see this post

https://organicax.com/2016/09/27/cxml-punchout-message-logging/