Integrating ContactManager with BillingCenter in QuickStart

The following figure shows the primary integration points used to integrate BillingCenter and ContactManager.


BillingCenter and ContactManager integration points, including web services, plugins, implementation classes, and configuration classes.

In general, to get the basic integration working, you edit the suite-config.xml files in BillingCenter and ContactManager. You also register the BCBillingSystemPlugin plugin implementation in the ContactManager plugin registry BillingSystemPlugin.gwp. Additionally, you register ABContactSystemPlugin in the BillingCenter registry ContactSystemPlugin.gwp.

If you extend the contact model, you edit the ContactMapper classes in both ContactManager and BillingCenter, and possibly the BCNameMapper class.

Important: Guidewire recommends that you change the authentication user and password. To do so, you add authentication users to ContactManager and ClaimCenter and edit the ABConfigurationProvider and CCConfigfurationProvider classes.

Detailed steps for integrating BillingCenter and ContactManager are a multi-step process:

  1. Integrate BillingCenter with ContactManager
  2. Integrate ContactManager with BillingCenter
  3. Test the integration of BillingCenter and ContactManager
  4. Troubleshooting the BillingCenter connection with ContactManager

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