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jBPM6 Developer Guide - Third Edition
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jBPM6 Developer Guide - Third Edition

by Mauricio Salatino
August 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
310 pages
7h 59m
English
Packt Publishing
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External interactions

As said before, good process engines are not meant to be monolithic software that manage everything inside; instead, they are coordination frameworks for people and other systems. One key component to achieve such a behavior is to provide a connector strategy to configure and/or code external interactions between the process and other systems.

From the runtime point of view, each one of these external interaction instances are called Work items. Work items are a representation of a specific step in a process execution. They will store the input and output information for each interaction and its state (pending, active, completed, or aborted).

However, information about the actual occurrence of the external interaction invocation ...

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