Chapter 2. Multi-instance and State-based Patterns

The set of patterns included in this chapter will demonstrate how processes can handle batch jobs and how to simultaneously spawn multiple work item instances in a process. This chapter simplifies the usage of loop characteristics while showcasing multi-instance perspectives. This chapter emphasizes on developing solutions for use cases with multi-instance requirement using design-time and runtime knowledge, and it exhibits true dynamism in the process. The focus is simply on the cases where flow paths need to be determined based on the intermediate events converging from external systems and in order to break the usual ordering mechanism of the process flow imposed on tasks. The patterns in this section will offer flexibility in the ordering of process tasks. You will explore how to amalgamate a mechanism to support the conditional execution of tasks and subprocesses when a process instance is in a specific state. This chapter...