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Mastering jBPM6

By : Simone Fiorini, Arun V Gopalakrishnan
Book Image

Mastering jBPM6

By: Simone Fiorini, Arun V Gopalakrishnan

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering jBPM6
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Events


Events are elements used to model something that happens during the process lifetime. BPMN 2.0 defines two main event categories: catching and throwing events.

  • Catching: This event represents a pausing point in the process execution: Once the process flow reaches the catching event node, it stops in the wait state, waiting for a specific trigger to happen.

  • Throwing: This event represents an action generating an event. When process execution reaches the event construct, an action is performed and a trigger is fired. For this throwing event, depending on the event type, there could be a matching catching event or not, that is, a send signal (throwing)/catch signal or send error (throwing)/catch error. On the other hand, the compensate throw event does not have a catch companion, while the timer event is always a catching event.

Events are also categorized according to other criteria:

  • An event can appear at the beginning of a process (Start event), within a process (Intermediate event...