SOA for the Business Developer: Concepts, BPEL, and SCA (Business Developers series)

The receive activity waits for a message that matches the detail in the related WSDL operation.

<receive name="getQuote" partnerLink="agent" operation="requestQuote" variable="quoteDetails" createInstance="yes" />

Among the attributes of the receive activity:

• partnerLink identifies the partner link used to connect to the service.

• portType identifies the port type but is optional because the port type is implied by the partner link and by the role identifier myRole in that partner link.

• operation identifies the service operation.

• variable identifies a variable that receives the business data from the service. Specify this attribute only if you don't specify the fromParts element.

• createInstance indicates whether the activity creates a BPEL instance. Valid values are yes and no. The default is no.

• messageExchange references a message exchange.

Among the elements in the receive activity:

• correlations references one or more correlation sets.

• fromParts identifies a set of message parts and related variables to receive business data. Specify the fromParts element only if you don't specify the variable attribute.