Acknowlegements with SOAP adapter

Question

Hello gurus,
I'm aware of the acknowledgements with the proxies. I have scenarios of SOAP-PI-Proxy and Proxy-PI-SOAP, where SOAP adapter sends or receives messages with customly developed WS.
I need to direct the WS developer team to implement acknowledgement mechanisms. As the SOAP adapter only supports system acknowledgements, how can they request acknowledgements while sending messages or how can they return them when they receive messages? Also, they need to be able to process these acknowledgements.
The WS are developed in Java, and no ccBPM is used, so I will need Java examples if this is done in the coding. Thank you for your inputs.
Kind regards,
Gökhan

Answer 1

Hi,
1) You can develop a common interface from SOAP --> XI --> Target for the acknowledgement part. This can be used across any SOAP --> XI --> Target scenario ....provided source and target systems are not changing....even if the systems change, the configuration needs to be done accordingly (agreements, routing).
2) Create a data structure of your need on the SOAP --> XI side...this may include all the details for a particular interface (MI name, Sender, Receiver, Scenario Name, ACK status +ve / -ve, etc).
3) Do the mapping of this structure with the necessary target structure and also do the configuration.
4) Once Config is done create a wsdl file based on the interface details and provide it to the SOAP sender team.
This wsdl file will act as a webservice for the sender side. Ask the developers to develop a scenario at their end which will trigger this WS (of XI) and will send the necessary ACK details.
In this way you will get the ACK details for a particular scenario and you will not even need to change the QoS of any scenario....The only thing needs to be taken care is by the sender system on how / when they trigger the scenario....this is purely based on your business needs....hope it helps...
Regards,
Abhishek.