Traceability Information Exchange

TraceTracker Traceability Information Exchange (TIX) offers enterprises a single point of access to all relevant traceability information inside their enterprise. TIX is also an entry point into global traceability data that can be accessed through the Global Traceability Network™ (GTNet).

TIX 6 is a product providing Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS). In addition it provides support for expressing traceability information and provides query interfaces that power many of TraceTrackers additional products and services.

Architecture Overview

The next figure shows the subsystems and how they communication in a typical deployment of TIX.  If TIX is connected to GTNet, there will be a bidirectional communication channel between the TIX and GTNet. A GTNet Hub will initiate communication with a TIX and the TIX J2EE application will initiate communication with a GTNet Hub. The transport protocol for the communication is HTTPS. An ERP system is often used to push traceability data into TIX. The ERP system will use GTNet Capture Interface (GCI) to push the data, and the transport protocol is HTTP.

Tomcat (web server and servlet container) handles all incoming requests, and forward the request to the web layer of the TIX application. Components in the web layer uses services in the business layer to fulfill the request. The business layer will use the RDMS (database) and/or GTNet to carry out its work.