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Business faults

The adapter supports business faults, which are exceptions that are anticipated and declared in the outbound service description, or import. Business faults occur at predictable points in a business process, and are caused by a business rule violation or a constraint violation.

Although IBM BPM and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus support other types of faults, the adapter generates only business faults, which are referred to as faults in this documentation. Not all exceptions become faults. Faults are generated for errors that are actionable, that is, errors that can have a recovery action that does not require the termination of the application.

For example, the adapter generates a fault when it receives a business object for outbound processing that does not contain the required data or when the adapter encounters certain errors during outbound processing.


Fault business objects

The external service wizard creates a business object for each fault that the adapter can generate. In addition, the wizard creates a WBIFault superset business object, which has information common to all faults, such as the message, errorCode, and primaryKeySet attributes, as shown in the figure.

Figure 1. The structure of the WBIFault business object

Some faults contain the matchCount attribute, to provide additional information about the error. For others, WBIFault contains all the information needed to handle the fault. For information about business faults, see Fault business objects listing.

Technical overview of WebSphere Adapter for PeopleSoft Enterprise


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Fault business objects listing