BC-to-BC connection

Last Updated: 23 August 2007

Feature Specification

• Allow direct BC to BC connections within a composite application

• Generate all necessary changes to deployment artifacts including BC SU jar and SA jbi.xml

Derived Design Requirements

• Connect a consume endpoint of a WSDL port to a provide endpoint of another WSDL port

  • One of the port must be defined with a known port type

  • Linking of two endpoint of undefined port type is not allowed

  • Linking the consume and provide endpoints of the same port is not allowed

• Allow set/change of an editable WSDL port to a known port type

Limitations

• The NB 6.0 FCS includes only FILE, HTTP, JMS, and SOAP bindings. Other BC type may not fully supported.

• Due to BC implementation limitations, not all scenarios are supported, Key limitations are:

  • File BC does not support request/response operation on outbound services

  • SMTP BC does not support request/response operations

  • see http://java.sun.com/integration/openesb2_0/releasenotes.jsp#component-limits

A simple composite application for testing a BC-BC connection in the SOAP-to-SOAP-to-BPEL scenario.

• Create a synchronous sample composite application

• Build the sample application

• Open it in CASA

• Add a new SOAP wsdl endpoint, casaPort1

• Connect the casaPort1 consume endpoint to the port1 provide endpoint, see image,

• Edit the casaPort1 property and set the SOAP address location to:

  • http://localhost:18183/service

• Save the project

• Create a new test case, TestCase1

• Select the wsdl from the CompApp project, SynchronousSampleApplication

• Select the operation1 to test casaPort1

• Edit test input message and save the test case

• deploy and test the sample application

Set an editable wsdl port to a known port type.

• Create an asynchronous sample composite application

• Build the sample application

• Add a new FILE wsdl endpoint, casaPort1

• Edit the casaPort1 property to set its Interface Name, see image

• The port type of the new wsdl endpoint should be set to the selected port type

Create a BC-to-BC composite application project with no SE SU project. This project routes user requests from one wsdl port (casaPort2) to another one (casaPort1) of an existing service (SynchronousSampleApplication).

3.1 Deploy a Web Service:

• Create an Synchronous sample composite application

• Deploy the sample application, SynchronousSampleApplication

3.2 copy web service WSDL:

• Create a new CompositeApp2

• right click on Process Files

• select new/Others...

• select XML/External WSDL Documents

• Select "From Local File System" and click on Browse

• Browse to Synchronous sample source directory, see image

• click finish

• Build CompositeApp2 to pick up changes

3.3 Add BC-to-BC WSDL ports:

• Add a new SOAP wsdl endpoint, casaPort1

• Edit the casaPort1 property to set its Interface Name to:

  • {http://localhost/SynchronousSample/SynchronousSample}portType1

• Edit the casaPort1 property and set the SOAP address location to:

  • http://localhost:18181/SynchronousSample

• Add a new SOAP wsdl endpoint, casaPort2

• Connect the casaPort2 consume endpoint to the casaPort1 provide endpoint, see image,

• Save the project

3.4 deploy/test BC-to-BC service:

• Deploy the CompositeApp2 project

• IN CompositeApp2, create a new test case, TestCase1

• Select the CompApp project wsdl, CompsositeApp2.wsdl

• Select the operation1 of casaBinding2

• Edit test input message and save the test case

• Run the test case