Business processes can be either long-running or microflows.
A long-running business process is interruptible, and each step of the process can run in its own physical transaction. Long-running business processes can wait for external stimuli. Examples of external stimuli are events that are sent by another business process in a business-to-business interaction, responses to asynchronous invocations, or the completion of a human task.
A long-running process has the following characteristics:
A microflow runs in one physical thread from start to finish without interruption. Microflows are sometimes referred to as non-interruptible business processes. Microflows can have different transactional capabilities. A microflow can run within a global transaction or as part of an activity session.
A microflow has the following characteristics:
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