There are varied ways available to interact with subprocesses in Oracle BPM. The following bullet points classify the various subprocesses:
The embedded subprocesses are in-line with the parent process.
The multi-instance subprocess is a process over which a parent process can iterate. It is basically an embedded subprocess; however, you can define multi-instance and looping behavior for this kind of an embedded subprocess.
The reusable subprocesses are defined outside the parent process model, and they execute within the parent process flow.
The event subprocess is similar to the embedded subprocess; however, it is useful in handling errors and will be discussed in Chapter 7, Exception Handling Patterns.
The peer subprocesses are those processes that can be invoked by a Send and Receive Task, via a throw and catch event, or even via a service task.
The following table categorizes the subprocess, its scope, and exception-handling behavior:
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