a simple example, where the part er link
is not know, is the case where you have 2 Business Process, say
"Purchasing" and "Inventory". Both have a partner supplier,
and the engine knows about lets say 10 suppliers. The scenario featres an
acknowledgment business message, which contains
<ack><messagetype>ORDER</messagetype><refnum>123</refnum></ack>
to acknowledge the receipt of an order with the number 123 and the same vor an
inventory message. If I now receive a message from an supplier on the business
signal port, I find 2 business process definitions receiving on that port type
and from one of the suppliers. Therefore the correlator is the only one who can
decide, if this was a message for the inventory or purchasing process.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kristofer
Agren [mailto:kagren@pakalert.com]
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 11:26
PM
To: Eckenfels. Bernd; 'bpel
implementation'; wsbpel-dev@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [wsbpel-dev] RE:
[wsbpel-implement] what attributes the correlation knows about incoming
messages?
Bernd,
In our case, we rely on knowing the
partner link and operation for an incoming message, and the
“normal” input to the engine consists of the partner link,
operation and the message itself. I do not really understand why the partner
link is so hard to discern, since when a BPEL process is deployed, the engine
knows what partner links, port types and, ultimately, ports that are used to
realize the operations of the process. In our case, the communications binding
that is constructed during deployment is responsible for creating a
“static” route between the actual port, regardless if it is a Web
Service, .NET, JMS, EJB, etc. binding, and the partner link/operation.
Regards,
Kristofer
From: Eckenfels. Bernd
[mailto:B.Eckenfels@seeburger.de]
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 1:33
PM
To: bpel implementation;
wsbpel-dev@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [wsbpel-implement] what attributes
the correlation knows about incoming messages?
Hello,
this
is a question to implementors, how they understood the specification:
if
I asume a SOAP Servlet, which will receive HTTP Calls with SOAP (maybe a Axis
Srvice or something like this), it receives a SOAP Call on a specified URL (ip,
port, local part) to a method and with a specific message type.
With
those parameters, the servlet can look up the operation and port type.
(since those are not part of the soap call)
It
also has some information about the called (ip, basic authentication, xml
security, soap headers) and may be able to lookup a implementation specific
trading partner.
But,
it has a hard time to actually know about a partner link. In fact due to
correlations it may not even try to find out the partner link.
So
I asume, that the normal "input" to the correlation engine of a BPEL
engine is the representation of the call, the portType/operation, but not the
partner link. This also means, that the correlation must be able to find the
input message across multiple receives from different or the same process
definitions (i.e. with different partner links).
I
also guess, that most engines will support some policies for actually
restricting incoming messages to a subset of the receive activities, but thtat
does not affect the basic asumption, that the implementaiotn of a bpel engine
has to deal with events to a specified porttype/operation with unspecified
partner link.
Especially
since in the incoming case late binding is as common as in the outgoing case
(partners and partner links in process definitions are very often only
"roles" in B2B scenarios).
Mit
freundlichen Grüßen
Bernd Eckenfels
Chief Architect
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