Connecting to Ariba with a Java API

To connect to Ariba, you use the Ariba Integration Toolkit. It consists of java libraries and batch scripts.
Using the batch script was uneasy for us, as it means we had to schedule 2 jobs: one to get or retrieve the files from Ariba and another job to process the file.

A much easier solution, was to call the Ariba java library straight away from our java code. To do that we had to dig into the batch file and decompile the java code.
Then to call the Ariba Java API, you simply add Ariba libraries to your classapth and you call the following code:

public class CallAriba {

public static void main(String[] args) {

String[] s = buildArg();

ariba.filetransferclient.Main.main(s);

}

private static String[] buildArg() {

String[] arguments = {

"get",

"-url",

"https://s1.ariba.com/Buyer/filedownload?realm=myCompanyRealm",

"-sharedSecret",

"myCompanySharedSecret",

"-downloadDir",

"C:/temp/ariba",

"-timestampFile",

"C:/temp/ariba/time.txt",

"-filePrefix",

"OK2Pay",

"-logFile",

"C:/temp/ariba/logs/log-test.log",

"-proxyHost",

"10.0.225.201",

"-proxyPort",

"8080",

"-unzipDirs",

"false",

"--",

"-event",

"Export Payment Requests"};

return arguments;

}