Manipulating soap headers in BPEL 11g doesn't work

Question

Hi,
I need to change the values of the soap header elements MessageId and RelatesTo in SOA Suite 11.1.1.5. The documentation is not very clear on how to achieve this. In the development guide bpelx:inputHeaderVariable is mentioned for manipulating soap headers. If you use the "Headers" tab on the invoke activity I instead get bpelx:headerVariable. But I've tried both and then run the calls through TCP Monitor. The messageId/RelatesTo is still not changed.
I have also tried the "Properties" tab on the invoke activity. There are two properties called wsa.messageId and wsa.relatesTo which sounds perfect. But still nothing happens when I use them.
My invoke looks like this (if e.g. using bpelx:headerVariable):
<invoke name="InvokeSomeProcess" partnerLink="SomeProcess"
portType="ns1:SomeProcessCallback" operation="onResult"
inputVariable="someProcessInputVariable"
bpelx:invokeAsDetail="no"
bpelx:headerVariable="relatesTo,MessageIdHeader">
</invoke>
This worked perfectly in 10.3.4 which is what I'm migrating from (then using bpelx:inputHeaderVariable).
Is this not working in 11g?? Or have I missed some crucial detail? Has anybody got it to work?
Thankful for any help!
Kind Regards
Kerstin

Answer 1

Ok, there are at least two bugs that are related to this problem:
1) JDeveloper adds the wrong property when you add a header through the GUI tab "Headers" on an invoke activity. It should be "bpelx:inputHeaderVariable" and NOT "bpelx:headerVariable". (Bug #12541901).
2) Currently in SOA Suite 11g the WS-Addressing headers are overwritten when the SOAP call is made. Enhancement Request #13718140 has been logged asking for this behaviour to be changed in a future release. This is currently being considered by Product Management.
Oracle support suggests that you use OSB to set the headers.
Kind Regards
Kerstin