334 Patterns: Building Serial and Parallel Processes for IBM WebSphere Process Server V6
We follow these guidelines:
1. Analyze the business requirements.
2. Select a pattern.
3. Analyze the design options.
12.2.1 Analysis of the business requirements
The business requirements are summarized as follows:
Reduce the cycle time for a wholesaler quote to 30 seconds.
Choose the wholesaler with the shortest lead time. Do not apply any preferred
supplier rules because we rescinded Wholesaler A’s preferred supplier status.
Update the financial system automatically and transactionally. Ensure that
either both the general ledger and accounts payable system are updated or
none of them are updated. Updates made to one system, but not the other,
will result ...