Processing in the Order Processing Stages

The Business Process Management solution includes two stages, the CableOrder1 and CableOrder2 orchestrations, that perform the order processing actions. For more information about how the order process was divided into stages, see Number of Processing Stages.

Both processing stages begin when they receive an order message and both reply with a status message to the OrderManager orchestration once they have started. Similarly, both send a message back to the OrderManager to indicate whether the stage completed or terminated with an error. For details about the connection between the OrderManager orchestration and the processing stages, see Inverse Direct Partner Binding.

Both processing stages use self-correlating, dynamic ports to send information back to the OrderManger. With dynamic ports, the orchestrations copy the port address from the message to send port.

All of the order messages the processing stages receive are the normalized, canonical order messages created in the OrderBroker.

The CableOrder1 Orchestration

The CableOrder1 orchestration starts when it receives an order message. It then copies the reply address from the message to the stage completion port. Next, it constructs an acknowledgement message and sends it as a response to the BeginStagePort port, and then saves the routing information in a local variable.

The orchestration next gets the configuration information from SSO. For more information about how the solution uses SSO, see Using SSO Efficiently in the Business Process Management Solution.

The orchestration then creates an instance of the OrderHandler object to communicate with the backend processes, checks the validity of the message, analyzes the message, determines the service type, and which action to take. Depending on the action to take, it calls one of the order action orchestrations Activate, Change, or Cancel and passes the OrderHandler object to the orchestration.

The CableOrder1 orchestration then checks for an interrupt, sends a message to the facilities group and waits to hear back. If the orchestration gets a message back from the facilities group, it continues processing. Otherwise, if there is an interrupt, the orchestration throws an interrupt exception.

The orchestration finishes by constructing a completion message and sending it through the StageCompletion port.

The CableOrder2 Orchestration

The CableOrder2 orchestration performs the same starting steps as the CableOrder1 orchestration for the routing information, SSO configuration information, and creating an instance of the OrderHandler object.

The orchestration then checks for an interrupt and passes the OrderHandler object in a call to the Complete orchestration. Next, the orchestration creates an order status message, updates the order history, and sends a completion message through the StageCompletion port.

See Also

Versioning the Business Process Management Solution
Processing in the Business Process Management Solution