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Timer triggered more than it should after an exception (infinite loop some times).
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created by <a href="https://community.jboss.org/people/milhaim">Miloud Haimoune</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="https://community.jboss.org/message/736786#736786">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi All,</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I'm having an infinite loop in my business process in my project, so I reduced my process to a sample one and reproduced the bug. I'm using jbpm5.2 seam and jboss 5.1.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>the process:</p><p> <a href="https://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-736786-18600/Screen+Shot+2012-05-21+at+12.10.14.png"><span> https://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2-736786-18600/450-90/Screen+Shot+2012-05-21+at+12.10.14.png </span></a></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>In an ad-hoc model, I start the process and a timer is triggered each 60s to check some rules. <span style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;">I have a variable "</span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">iteration" which is incremented in the</span><span style="color: #008000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> </span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">a script action (each time the triggered), after the third  iteration a throw an exception with I catch in my processManager.</span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>The rule where the exception is thrown</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p> <a href="https://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-736786-18601/Screen+Shot+2012-05-21+at+12.10.50.png"><span> https://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2-736786-18601/450-106/Screen+Shot+2012-05-21+at+12.10.50.png </span></a></p><p><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">To reproduce the bug I start tow process instance, let the exception occurred and start a new process instance than the timer is triggered 3, 4 5 times in a second and it should happen just ones each 60s. Some times this exception produces an infinite loop (triggering the timer).</span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I joined the process definition, the rule file and processmanager.ava (inspired from the jbpm console code).</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>My question :</p><p>Is it a problem in my code or a bug in jbpm, and if there is a way to workaround.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>If you need any further information, please let me know.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>thanks.</p></div>
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