Petals ESB specific vocabulary

correlation id / process id/ process execution id / process request id / global message id : 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 / loop id :
branch id / thread id (???) :
component instance key / component key : key associated to the component instance
trace code / trace id / log id / log code / trace nature : a code identifying uniquely a trace nature

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