342 Patterns: Building Serial and Parallel Processes for IBM WebSphere Process Server V6
Does my process genuinely need the parallel pattern?
In our scenario, we have two ways to do more than one thing at one time:
In a single order, we can query two wholesalers in parallel.
We can process multiple part request orders simultaneously.
The first task requires the parallel pattern, which is what we have chosen here.
The second task requires only the serial pattern, but uses the functionality of
WebSphere Process Server to enable multiple instances of that pattern to run at
the same time. It is important to keep the difference in mind, although some of
the design considerations for the parallel pattern are equally applicable when
running multiple ...