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Figure9-10.Specifying attributes of the <reply> activity
The
<reply>
will actually be the last step in the process, as it sends the response back to the
client. But you're not quite done yet. Now you need to go back and fill in two assignment
activities to make the process complete.
Creating the inbound assignment
You need to add two
<assign>
activities: the first assignment follows your
<receive>
, and
the second follows your
<invoke>
. You cannot just accept a message in the receive activity
and then immediately invoke your partner service. You need to indicate what element of the
received message you want to pass into the service as a parameter.
To create an
<assign>
activity, click the Assign label in the Basic Activities section of the
palette and drag it onto the sequence between the
<receive>
and
<invoke>
activities.
Now you have to map the data from the available variables you've defined into the available
partner links. To do this, click the Mapper button on the toolbar and drill down to the Cus-
tomerProcessEsbOperationIn→getCustomerFullNameEsb→customerID variable. The map-
per screen is shown in
Figure 9-11
. Drag that variable across the canvas to Vari-
