Fault Policy Management Framework in 10.1.3.3

Question

Hi,
According to the Oracle Documentation, 10133technote. It says
1) "A fault policy can be associated at the following levels:
Partner link,Port type, Process & Domain."
- Here can you through a light on "Process" n what "Process" means
- Is it Refering to a BPEL Process or a "Process" in <faultPolicyBindings>
- Can we have multiple "Process" for a <faultPolicyBindings>
2) "The framework looks for fault policy bindings in the following files (in order of priority):
- In the bpel.xml file at the process level
- In the domain level file "
- what entry should go in bpel.xml (are we really have to edit bpel.xml, created by JDEV)
- what does it mean Process Level & Domain Level
- where we can have a thin line between "Process Level" & "Domain Level"
and How they differ-in while at Implemenation level
Lastly what are the files that we need to modify/edit to make faultPolicy work.
Thanx in adv

Answer 1

Hello,
See comments below:
Hi user568921,
Thanx for an immediate reply.
Apologize for the long list of questions.
1) Already we can have expentional Handling in BPEL,
then why this
Fault Management Framework be used on top of this
[ irrespective of your BPEL Process has Expectional
Handling or not (pl. correct me if im wrong)]
more over i have to restart the server for each
modification,
this is not that recommended when it goes to
Production.
1a) if i have both BPEL Expectional Handling and
Fault Management Framework applied to my Process
which one preceedes.
Fault Management Framework is used for generic fault
handling on a deployed server.
Since the change affects all deployed processes, we do
not recommend changing policy or bindings in production.
We are providing a client api in 10.1.3.4.0 to reload fault
policy and binding files.
Fault Management Framework precedes BPEL "catch". You can
attempt retry actions, if this fails, invoke java code to
email an administrator and mark the activity for human
recovery or do a rethrowFault to pass to BPEL exception
handling.
2) This is what my bpel.xml files contains
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?>
<BPELSuitcase>
<BPELProcess id="FaultPolicyManagement"
src="FaultPolicyManagement.bpel">
<partnerLinkBindings>
<partnerLinkBinding name="client">
<property
name="wsdlLocation">FaultPolicyManagement.wsdl</prope
ty>
</partnerLinkBinding>
<partnerLinkBinding name="sayHelloService">
<property
name="wsdlLocation">sayHelloService3.wsdl</property>
</partnerLinkBinding>
<partnerLinkBinding
name="FaultPolicyManagementSync">
<property
name="wsdlLocation">url?wsdl</property>
</partnerLinkBinding>
artnerLinkBindings>
</BPELProcess>
<faultPolicyBindings>
process faultPolicy="defaultPolicy"/>
     <process faultPolicy="anvvPolicy"/>
<partnerLink
k faultPolicy="DefaultPolicy"></partnerLink>
     <partnerLink faultPolicy="anvvPolicy">
     <name>FaultPolicyManagementSync</name>
<portType
tType
xmlns:db="http://FaultPolicyManagementSync">db:FaultPo
licyManagementSync_plt</portType>
     </partnerLink>
</faultPolicyBindings>
/BPELSuitcase>
when i edit the bpel.xml with
<faultPolicyBindings></faultPolicyBindings> and
deploy it
all the <faultPolicyBindings></faultPolicyBindings>
is resetting back to original bpel.xml
( The Content between
<faultPolicyBindings></faultPolicyBindings> is taken
from fault-bindings.xml file )
why it is so ?
and my fault-bindings.xml is
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<faultPolicyBindings version="2.0.1"
xmlns="http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/faultpolicy"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
<process faultPolicy="DefaultPolicy"/>
<process faultPolicy="anvvPolicy"/>
<partnerLink
k faultPolicy="DefaultPolicy"></partnerLink>
     <partnerLink faultPolicy="DefaultPolicy2">
     <name>FaultPolicyManagementSync</name>
<portType
tType
xmlns:db="http://FaultPolicyManagementSync">db:FaultPo
licyManagementSync_plt</portType>
     </partnerLink>
</faultPolicyBindings>
and DefaultPolicy.xml & DefaultPolicy2.xml is same as
what is there in the server.
Is the file contents correct in Implementation.
Only one process tag is allowed.
2a) if Fault Management Framework applied and NO
<faultPolicyBindings></faultPolicyBindings> is added
to bpel.xml
and if it is left as it is (i.e., default bpel.xml
generated by JDEV) then what is the policy it is
applied.
Once the system detects an invoke has faulted, it tries
to check if there is a fault policy attached to this faulted
partner link (or port type, or the process), if no policy
binding is detected, it will flow bubble up the fault. By
default there is no policy applied.
3) Can you please let me know
- how many ( fault-binding.xml &) fault-policy's can
n i have per domain.
- how many ( fault-binding.xml &) fault-policy's can
n i have per process.
     many to one or many to many relationship.
We can have only one policy
[config/DefaultPolicy.xml] at a Domain Level
To create a Fault Policy File for Automated Fault Recovery
Create directories named fault-policies under the config directory for
every domain in which you want to use the fault management framework.
SOA_ORACLE_HOME\bpel\domains\domain_name\config\fault-policies
You can have n fault policies per domain.
To provide a fault policy applicable to an entire domain in the
fault-bindings.xml file in the SOA_ORACLE_
HOME\bpel\domains\domain_name\config directory.
You can have 1 fault-bindings.xml per domain.
3a) how can i make sure/ensure that Fault Management
Framework is applied at each process level and/or at
Domain level.Provide a fault-binding: with
<process faultPolicy="YourPolicy"/>
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4) Is there any Advantages, limitations / contrains
that we have if we are opting Fault Management
Framework (have to consider, before going to
production).
The framework is applicable for faults in "invoke" activity
only.
5) can i have any samples / URL for samples for Fault
Management Framework in OTN or else where.
     so that i can work around.
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Other than 10133technotes.pdf do you have any other
documentation which has an eloberative description
about
Fault Management Framework and its samples
please guide me accordingly.Let me know if you need more information.