Business process types

Business processes can be either long-running or microflows.

Long-running processes

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:

Microflows

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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