What's the best practice to report an business level error with AS4?

[Rong Xing <rxing@tibco.com>]

Hi Makesh and all,

 

I understand that in ebMS3/AS4 the validation of business document payload is irrelevant as it's said in AS4 spec: The semantics for sending back an eb:Receipt message is as follows: a wellformed ebMS user message has been received and the MSH is taking responsibility for its processing (additional application-level delivery semantics, and payload validation semantics are not relevant). However one of our prospects asked us the question: if we detect the error in the payload (validation error, etc) and want to send back an error message to the sender, what's the messaging vehicle we should use to carry the error? I guess this is a typical question that a future ebMS3/AS4 adopters will ask, especially when they are already used to the ebMS2 messaging choreography.

 

In ebMS2 an ebBP receipt can be sent back asynchronously to report the success/failure of the business document validation. So I would like to know how it is considered to integrate ebMS3/AS4 with ebBP (as I know the current version is 2.0.4, which was announced in 2006, before ebMS3.0 was finalized)? Or what's the best practice regarding to this matter?

 

Thanks,

Rong