[jboss-user] [JBoss jBPM] - Re: jBPM BPEL: Process Performance and Workload ?
alex.guizar@jboss.com
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Mon Oct 9 15:33:16 EDT 2006
1) Well, as you know, endpoints backed by a BPEL process are stateful. In general, you will have a process instance per request, unless two or more requests correlate to the same process instance. In this case these requests will execute the same instance.
This is a consequence of the design of the BPEL language. You can expect performance similar to stateful session beans in the EJB domain.
2) In jBPM, a process instance is composed of one or more tokens. Each token represents a path of execution. Initially, a process instance contains a single token which represents the main path. When the process logic encounters an activity with more than one path of execution (the flow activity, a scope with event handlers, etc) the engine spaws one token per path.
jBPM runs these paths serially to avoid starting new threads because this is forbidden in a Java EE environment. This might look bad, but in practice it is not: jBPM stops executing a path of execution when it encounters a blocking activity (these include inbound message and time-driven activities).
When jBPM stops executing a path, a separate server thread must resume the execution of that path. This is where JMS is critical to the BPEL runtime: it allows for executing more than one path of the same process instance in parallel, while fully adhering to Java EE guidelines.
To illustrate, consider the following example:
<sequence>
| <receive name="a" createInstance="yes"/>
| <flow>
| <sequence name="b">
| <invoke name="b1"/>
| <receive name="b2"/>
| </sequence>
| <sequence name="c">
| <assign name="c1 />
| <receive name="c2" />
| </sequence>
| </flow>
| <reply name="d"/>
| </sequence>
The order of execution is:
[thread-1]
a, b1, c1
[thread-2]
b2
[thread-3]
c2, d
Note that d executes in either thread-2 or thread-3 depending on what request arrives first, b2 or c2
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