Actions specify the tasks to perform when an error occurs. Mediator supports retry, human intervention, abort, and Java code actions for parallel routing rules. For sequential routing rules, fault policies can contain these actions: abort, rethrow, and Java code.

If retry or human intervention action is chosen with sequential routing rules, the fault goes back to the caller directly, and the policy is not applied. The fact that an incompatible action was chosen is recorded in the log. This is consistent with BPEL fault policy behavior. It is the responsibility of the caller to handle the fault. If the caller is an adapter, you can define rejection handlers on the inbound adapter to take care of the messages that error out (that is, the rejected messages). For more information about rejection handlers, see Understanding Technology Adapters.

Fault policy actions are described in the following sections.