Makesh,
Actually I was suggesting two approaches. One is just the traditional backend application UserMessage - but the other is using a hybrid approach with a messaging queue and messaging service.
I've used this in production for a Grants.gov application built for NIH.
The actual messages packages are quite large - combination of XML and PDF attachments - so the original submission goes into the queue. The delivery system then allows external systems to query for messages waiting in the queue (actually this is a webservice via SOAP - but can easily be via ebMS too).
Having downloaded the current messages in the queue stack - then the external system issues requests to the messaging service - and it goes and gets those from the queue and delivers them.
Thanks, DW
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Subject: RE: [ebxml-msg] Pull'ing a specific document
From: "Makesh Rao (marao)" <>
Date: Mon, March 29, 2010 9:12 pm
To: "David RR Webber (XML)" <>
Cc: <>
Hi David
So this will need to be a UserMessage rather than a Pull SignalMessage ? Backend implementation is something we have solution for, it was more on how to get the request for a particular package when Pulling data.
Thanks
Makesh
From: David RR Webber (XML) [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 5:35 PM
To: Makesh Rao (marao)
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Subject: RE: [ebxml-msg] Pull'ing a specific document
Makesh,
This sounds a bit like interfacing with an RSS server. Otherwise this functionality is typically backend application enabled - from the payload - rather than the messaging system.
I know in RSS world people can pull delivery packages out of sequence - so priority items, or priority customers get handled first.
I assume something similar to that is what they are looking - so it would require some customization involving a delivery queue - in combination with the messaging server - so that you instruct the queue to peel a package off and route it to the AS4 server for dispatch. So the first thing you get is a notification of a package having been added to the queue - its size, priority and its queue id # - and then you issue a request message back to the server - and it releases it from the queue at that point for actual delivery.
Thanks, DW
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [ebxml-msg] Pull'ing a specific document
From: "Makesh Rao (marao)" <>
Date: Mon, March 29, 2010 5:19 pm
To: <>
Hi
In initial conversations with partners/customers over AS4, I have repeatedly heard the request to be able to Pull a particular document. The unique identifier could be based on the UserMessage that has been exchanged earlier e.g. PO # if a PO Message has been sent earlier.
Is there provision in the current spec to be able to support that ? My understanding is that it is a generic Pull where the next available document is sent in the response.
Any advice please ?
Thanks
Makesh
