Publish Rendezvous Message

The Publish Rendezvous Message activity publishes a TIBCO Rendezvous message on the given subject with the given message content.

The Configuration tab has the following fields.

Field	Global Var?	Description
Name	No	The name to appear as the label for the activity in the process definition.
Description	No	Short description of the activity.
Subject	Yes	The subject on which to publish the TIBCO Rendezvous message. You can override this value by specifying a subject on the Input tab.
Transport	No	The TIBCO Rendezvous transport parameters. These are specified as a Rendezvous Transport shared configuration resource. See Rendezvous Transport for more information about shared configuration resources.
Pre-register Listener	Yes	When using TIBCO Rendezvous Certified Messaging (RVCM), this field specifies the cmname(s) of the RVCM subscriber(s). This allows the publisher to pre-register with any expected listeners. If multiple cmnames are specified, separate each cmname with a comma. See the TIBCO Rendezvous documentation for more information about RVCM.
XML Format	No	If checked, the body of the TIBCO Rendezvous message is placed into a single field named "xml". This field is a byte array containing the body of the message. The datatype of the field is TIBRVMSG_XML.
XML-Compliant Field Names	No	Specifies whether the field names of the outgoing message should be altered so that they comply with XML and ActiveEnterprise naming rules. Only field names that do not comply with XML and ActiveEnterprise naming rules are altered when this field is unchecked. When checked, field names are left unaltered.

The name to appear as the label for the activity in the process definition.

Description

Short description of the activity.

Subject

Yes

The subject on which to publish the TIBCO Rendezvous message. You can override this value by specifying a subject on the Input tab.

Transport

The TIBCO Rendezvous transport parameters. These are specified as a Rendezvous Transport shared configuration resource. See Rendezvous Transport for more information about shared configuration resources.

Pre-register Listener

Yes

See the TIBCO Rendezvous documentation for more information about RVCM.

XML Format

If checked, the body of the TIBCO Rendezvous message is placed into a single field named "xml". This field is a byte array containing the body of the message. The datatype of the field is TIBRVMSG_XML.

XML-Compliant Field Names

Specifies whether the field names of the outgoing message should be altered so that they comply with XML and ActiveEnterprise naming rules. Only field names that do not comply with XML and ActiveEnterprise naming rules are altered when this field is unchecked. When checked, field names are left unaltered.

The Input Editor tab allows you to define a custom schema for the body of the TIBCO Rendezvous message. See Appendix A, Specifying Data Schema for a complete description of using the Input Editor tab.

See TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Process Design for more information about mapping and transforming input data.

The input for the activity is the following.

Input Item	Datatype	Description
subject	string	The subject of the TIBCO Rendezvous message.
replySubject	string	The subject to send replies for this TIBCO Rendezvous message. This is useful if you want to use the Wait for Rendezvous Message activity later in the process to receive replies to the message.
preRegisterListener	string	When using TIBCO Rendezvous Certified Messaging (RVCM), this field specifies the cmname(s) of the RVCM subscriber(s). This allows the publisher to pre-register with any expected listeners. If multiple cmnames are specified, separate each cmname with a comma. Any listeners preregistered on the Transport tab are also preregistered with the listeners specified in this element. See the TIBCO Rendezvous documentation for more information about RVCM.
body	complex	The body of the TIBCO Rendezvous message.

The subject of the TIBCO Rendezvous message.

replySubject

string

The subject to send replies for this TIBCO Rendezvous message. This is useful if you want to use the Wait for Rendezvous Message activity later in the process to receive replies to the message.

preRegisterListener

string

When using TIBCO Rendezvous Certified Messaging (RVCM), this field specifies the cmname(s) of the RVCM subscriber(s). This allows the publisher to pre-register with any expected listeners. If multiple cmnames are specified, separate each cmname with a comma. Any listeners preregistered on the Transport tab are also preregistered with the listeners specified in this element.

See the TIBCO Rendezvous documentation for more information about RVCM.

body

complex

The body of the TIBCO Rendezvous message.

This activity produces no output.

The Error Output tab lists the possible exceptions that can be thrown by this activity. See TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Error Codes for more information about error codes and corrective action to take.

Exception	Thrown When...
TransportException	The transport cannot be created.
SerializationException	The message cannot be serialized.
RVPluginException	An error occurred when sending the message.

Exception

Thrown When...

TransportException

The transport cannot be created.

SerializationException

The message cannot be serialized.

RVPluginException

An error occurred when sending the message.