How You Manage Collaboration Message Definitions

Here's how you handle message definitions in Oracle Fusion Collaboration Messaging Framework.

You need to map the format of the messages that you send to or receive from trading partners through Collaboration Messaging Framework to Oracle applications or the other way around.

The mapping depends on whether the messaging is inbound or outbound. You need to define the mapping for each direction, which isn't reversible. The message definition you create references an XSL file that contains the transformations that Collaboration Messaging Framework uses.

Collaboration Messaging Framework provides many predefined message definitions. You might want to change the predefined mappings to accommodate trading-partner specific variations. For doing that, you need to carry out these tasks:

1. Create a new collaboration message definition, or

2. Duplicate an existing collaboration message definition and upload a modified XSL file.

3. Export the transformation package associated with a collaboration message definition and modify the XSL file to use with the new message definition.