Fault Policies using retry and java hadler

Question

Hi,
I am using fault policies to handle a remote and binding faults.Whenever i get a fault i want to retry for 5 times and then call a java handler, which will insert the error into queue.
I have written the fault policies and java handler.But the problem is for each retry it is going to Java handler and pushing the message to queue.
Here is my Fault policies file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<faultPolicies xmlns="http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/faultpolicy"
xmlns:bpelx="http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/extension"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<faultPolicy version="2.0.1" id="FaultHandling-faultpolicy">
<Conditions>
<faultName xmlns:bpelx="http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/extension"
name="bpelx:remoteFault">
<condition>
<action ref="ora-retry"/>
</condition>
</faultName>
<faultName xmlns:bpelx="http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/extension"
name="bpelx:bindingFault">
<condition>
<action ref="ora-retry"/>
</condition>
</faultName>
<faultName xmlns:bpelx="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/03/business-process/"
name="bpws:selectionFailure">
<condition>
<action ref="ora-retry"/>
</condition>
</faultName>
</Conditions>
<Actions>
<Action id="ora-terminate">
<abort/>
</Action>
<Action id="ora-replay-scope">
<replayScope/>
</Action>
<Action id="ora-retry">
<retry>
<retryCount>7</retryCount>
<retryInterval>2</retryInterval>
<retryFailureAction ref="ora-java"/>
</retry>
</Action>
<Action id="ora-java">
<javaAction className="faultpolicies.MyFaultHandler"
defaultAction="ora-human-intervention"
propertySet="customLogProps">
</javaAction>
</Action>
<Action id="ora-rethrow-fault">
<rethrowFault/>
</Action>
<Action id="ora-human-intervention">
<humanIntervention/>
</Action>
</Actions>
</faultPolicy>
</faultPolicies>
Pls guide me what should be done..
Thanks.

Answer 1

There is no point in retry on binding fault, rather you can raise it as exception and catch it in sepcific catch block or catch all will handle it.
Ideally this particular instance will be faulted and if required you can customize to send a mail with fault string to developer or support person or dba
This type of fault need human intervension to fix this code or it could be data issue.
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Thanks,
Vijay