Use this task to configure a reverse routing path between two bus destinations. The reverse routing path identifies the list of destinations to which a reply message should be sent when the consumer of a request message sends a reply message back to the producer of the reply message.
In the following figure, a producing application sends messages to a bus destination. Unknown to the application, the messages are then passed along a forward routing path of other bus destinations to a target destination where a consuming application retrieves the messages.
Destination | Reply destination bus |
D4 | D3 |
D3 | D2 |
D2 | D1 |
D1 | Destination |
You can specify a different reverse routing path to the forward routing path, to enable more mediations to be applied to reply messages, or to apply mediations in a different destination sequence.
If the same destinations are used for both the forward and reverse routing paths, you can configure the reverse routing path when you configure the forward routing path, as described in Configuring a destination forward routing path. Otherwise, you can configure (or change) the reverse routing path as described in this topic.
To configure a reverse routing path, you only have to change the properties of the destinations you want to use. This topic contains optional steps to create destinations, in case you have not already done so.
To configure a reverse routing path for a destination, use the administrative console to complete the following steps: