The following terms are defined in Petals ESB context and must be used in all technical and functional documents.

|| Terms \\ || Variable names \\ || Definition \\ ||
| Correlation ID / Process execution ID / Process request ID / Global message ID / Context UUID \\ | correlationId / processExecutionId / processRequestId / globalMessageId / contextUuid | It is a GUUID (Global Universal Unique IDentifier....) affected to all the generated message exchanges, hierarchically created from the a incoming request. it allows to regroup them. |
| Process loop ID | processLoopId \\ | |
| Branch ID | branchId \\ | |
| Component name / logger name | componentName / loggerName \\ | Key associated to the component instance |
| Trace code | traceCode \\ | A code identifying uniquely a trace nature |