Correllation of Business Message in EBMS Exchange

Correllation of Business Message in EBMS Exchange is done using

a. RefToMessageId
b. ConversationId

It is possible to correllate a business message such as ORDER with its response message such as ORDRSP and it is also allowed to correllate as many number of related messages as long as they carry appropriate RefToMessageID and ConversationID.

Back end application such as BPEL can make use of the AQ/JMS header replyToMsgID for setting the correllation information. Format of the replyToMsgID is as follows.

replyToMsgID : RefToMessageId : ConversationId


Example to correllate ORDER and ORDRSP

Let us consider two EBMS setup one for ACME and another for GlobalChips. Following are the sequence of activities which is of interest.

1. Enque an order message to ACME with the value of replyToMsgID as

replyToMsgID = : 999999999

B2B in the Acme side generates its own message id and use 999999999 as Conversation ID.

EBMS header of the business message sent to GlobalChips

a. Do not have RefToMessageID as this is the 1st message
b. MessageID contain the messageID (e.g Acme@222222222) of the ORDER message
c. ConversationID contain 999999999

2. GlobalChips gets the ORDER message (msgid= 444444444) and sends an Acknowledgement with the EBMS header as follows.

a. MsgID of the ACK message
b. RefToMessageID as copied from ORDER message from ACME i.e Acme@222222222
c. ConversationID contain 99999999

3. GlobalChips Enque an ORDRSP message with the value of

replyToMsgID = 444444444 : 999999999

where 444444444 is the messageID of the ORDER message. EBMS header of the ORDRSP

a. MsgID of the ORDRSP message
b. RefToMessageID as copied from ORDER message from ACME i.e Acme@222222222
c. ConversationID contain 99999999


4. Acme to send the Acknowledgement.

As a prerequisite it is required to set the following tip.properties to avail the correllation feature in EBMS Exchange.

oracle.tip.adapter.b2b.ebms.deliverConvId = true
oracle.tip.adapter.b2b.ebms.TreatMsgWithReplyToMsgIDAsReq = true

Please send a mail to ramesh.anantharamaiah@oracle.com for sending the export of the configuration.