RE: [ebxmlms-develop] Sending/receiving acknowledgements

[Ronald v. K. <rv...@ab...>]

You are right that an MSH may notify the application and I agree that it
would be a nice feature. But since the interface to an application is not
standardized (yet) and that a server MAY implement it, I have more faith in
an acknowledgement on the businessprocess layer in addition to receiving a
payment in a few days/weeks/months later (if at all regarding the current
state of the economy ;-) )
 
Ronald

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Mayne, Peter [mailto:Pet...@ap...]
Verzonden: woensdag 23 april 2003 2:10
Aan: 'ebx...@li...'
Onderwerp: RE: [ebxmlms-develop] Sending/receiving acknowledgements




Regarding the acknowledgement, it is only a messaging layer acknowledgement
for reliable messaging (afaik). If you need the application behind the
listener to receive an acknowledgement, it should be an ack on a different
level (other ebxml layer, or even not ebxml at all), not a messaging layer
ack.
 
Yes, but it would still be nice for the person that initiated the message to
know it has arrived.
 
 
In our case, someone here sends an invoice to a partner. The business
acknowledgement of that invoice is a payment some days/weeks later. However,
it would be convenient for the person who sent the invoice to get an
acknowledgement (usually within a few minutes) that the message has been
received. If things are broken (the Internet is down, the partner is off the
air, our Hermes server is not sending messages), then the lack of a fast
acknowledgement is a good indication that things need to be fixed.
 
The ebXML spec says "Upon receipt of an end-to-end Acknowledgment Message,
the From Party MSH MAY notify the application of successful delivery for the
referenced message." Notification would be good, because then we can decide
to ignore acknowledgements, rather than Hermes not telling us about them.
 
PJDM
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Peter Mayne
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