17.6. Determine Location for Audit Assignment

In SwitchYard, you may choose to provide an argument to the @Audit annotation. The accepted values for this comes from org.switchyard.bus.camel.processors.Processors enumeration. For example, the following combination can handle only validation occurrences:

Note the following important facts about validation, transformation, and transaction in SwitchYard:

If you want to implement only one execution of your auditor, use the following combination: Here, the auditor is executed just before sending exchange to service implementation. You can also implement one auditor instance with few mediation steps. For example, a bean with annotation following: This bean is executed twice. One pair of before or after call for provider service and second pair for outgoing response.