with out bpm how to generate alerts .

Hi Masters ,

I have one scenario jdbc to file here in sender jdbc i have one control table and one data table .. in control table there is one field name counter .. now in mapping if counter is less than 3 then it should throw error and update status field of source as E (error) and if it is greater or equals to 3 then it should process the message .

Is it possible to throw error ... or how to throw error ........ as i know with the help of BPM we can throw error ..but here in this case we are not using BPM.

Thanks in advance,

jagannath.