Managing the life cycle of a business process

Why and when to perform this task

A process instance comes into existence when a Business Process Choreographer API method that can start a process is invoked. The navigation of the process instance continues until all of its activities are in an end state. Valid end states are finished, skipped, failed, expired, or terminated.

Sometimes, the process instance, or one of its activities, might encounter a fault that cannot be processed as part of the process logic. In these cases, a process administrator can act on the activity or the process instance in a number of ways.

Examples are provided that show how you might develop applications for the following typical life-cycle actions on processes.


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