26 WebSphere Business Integrator Server Foundation V5.1 Handbook
Benefits
A number of additional benefits are provided with this solution.
The process is defined once
The channel applications do not contain any details of the implementation of
the process, only the interfaces through which they need to pass data. This
separation of process and user interface greatly aids future flexibility by
allowing the process to change and new channels to be added.
Multiple channels can access the same process instance
The active process instances all reside in the same component. This means
that any channel can retrieve and update the state of the process. In addition,
it becomes possible to monitor the progress of the processes and, potentially,
to produc ...