Differences between business process templates or business process instances
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Problem(Abstract)
What is the difference between business process templates and business process instances?
 
Resolving the problem
  • Question:
    What is the difference between business process templates and business process instances?

    Answer:
    A process template is a deployed and installed process that is used as a template for process instances at run time. It contains all information of a process model. The process templates can be managed in the WebSphere® Application Server Administrative Console.

    A process instance is an instance of a process template. Multiple process instances of the same process template can be executed in parallel.

  • Question:
    Is it possible to stop a process template?

    Answer:
    Process templates can be stopped.

    Process templates support the following administration tasks:
    • Start
    • Stop
    • Get state
Process templates can be started and stopped individually. If a process template is stopped, no new process instances of the corresponding process can be created. This means that an administrator can disable certain functions of a workflow application, for example, for maintenance reasons. Each process template has a state which is either started or stopped.
 
 
Cross Reference information
Segment Product Component Platform Version Edition
Business Integration WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition Windows, Linux 5.0
Business Integration WebSphere Process Server Business Flow Manager AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows 6.0 All Editions
Business Integration WebSphere Integration Developer Business Process Editor 6.0 All Editions
 
 


Document Information


Product categories: Software > Application Servers > Distributed Application & Web Servers > WebSphere Application Server > Enterprise Edition (EE)
Operating system(s): Windows
Software version: 5.0
Software edition:
Reference #: 1105888
IBM Group: Software Group
Modified date: Mar 21, 2003