[jboss-user] [jBPM] - Parallel gateways really parallel?

[Tobias Wittur]

Tobias Wittur [http://community.jboss.org/people/tob1as] created the discussion

"Parallel gateways really parallel?"

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Hi,

I was trying to throw and catch a message while also running a count down timer, that terminates the process in case a message is not received within a certain time.

I therefore used a parallel gateway. I ran into some issues and wonder now, are the different branches running in parallel or randomly sequential?

In this process, my service task on the top throws a message, which the intermediate message catch event receives and successfully executes.The service task asks the user per command line, if a message should be thrown.
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I then tried to introduce the timer as a thrid branch. However, the timer is never started. It never "runs into check if message received within time frame".
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I then remodelled the process. Here, suddenly the intermediate catch event is never executed.
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Are those parallel gateways executed sequentially or do they run in separate threads and are executed in parallel?

I know usually I would use an intermediate catch. However, I have to present my process to my boss next week and I have to show, how easily I can introduce change in a modeler to a process and execute it. So subprocesses and event based splits are not an option for this model.

Best regards,

Tobias
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