My team is new to developing these things and I came into a project that is defining an over-arching workflow using separate processes that are all defined under the same project. So it appears that right now the processes defined are all discrete units, and the plan was to connect these units together using inputs and outputs.
Based on the documentation it looks like the best-practicey way of doing this would be to define the entire, over-arching workflow using sub-process tasks.
So I wonder:
Is the implementation we've started workable?
or
Should I only have one process unit per one workflow, which defines sub-processes if the workflow is too complicated and has discrete parts?
It's fine to separate out certain parts of the process into its own process, and then call those from some sort of parent process. The task you should use in the parent process is called reusable sub-process, or call activity. It's absolutely fine to have multiple processes in the same project.
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I'm working on a project that uses an extremely complex BPMN file, so I've been tasked with seeing if splitting it into multiple BPMNs can be done i.e. have it go from one BPMN file into another. We are using Eclipse's BPMN2 Modeler, are there any ways of doing this outside of implementing a Sub-Process? And is there a way for it to happen as a user carries out tasks rather than right at the start, for instance when the user reaches a certain point in the sequence it jumps to another BPMN, otherwise it does not?
You could use message events to signal to different lanes/flows of your original BPMN.
This would enable you to split the flow into sub-BPMN diagrams which can accept message events to start the sub-flow, and emit message events when they're complete to continue the wider process.
Subprocesses is the best way to split chunks of processes into separate units. Based on your question: "for instance when the user reaches a certain point in the sequence it jumps to another BPMN" that is when you place a sub process activity.
I wonder why you are discarding that approach.
In Locust Load test Enviroment tasks are defined and are called randomly.
But if i want a task to be performed just after a specific task. Then how do i do it?
for ex: after every 'X' url call i want 'Y' url to be called based on the response of 'X'.
In my experience, I found that it's better to model Locust tasks as completely independent of each other, and each of them covering a user scenario or behavior (eg. customer logs in, searches for a book and adds it to the cart). This is mostly because that's a closer simulation of the user's behavior.
Have you tried just having the multiple requests on the same task, and just if / else based on your responses? This slide from Carl Byström's talk follows said approach.
You just have to make a sequential gets or posts. When you define your task do something like this:
#task(10)
def my_task(l):
l.client.get('/X')
l.client.get('/Y')
There's an option to create a custom task set inherited from TaskSequence class.
Then you should add seq_task decorators to all task set methods to run its tasks sequentially.
https://docs.locust.io/en/latest/writing-a-locustfile.html#tasksequence-class
I need to know that how can we run a single job in parallel with different parameters in talend.
The answer is straightforward, but rather depends on what you want, and whether you are using free Talend or commercial.
As far as parameters go, make sure that your jobs are using context variables - this is the preferred way of passing parameters in.
As for running in parallel, there are a few options.
Talend's studio is a java code generator, so you can export your job (it's just java code) and run it wherever you want. How you invoke it is up to you - schedule it, invoke it N times manually, your call. Obviously, if your job touches shared resources then making it safe to run in parallel is up to you - the usual concurrency issues apply.
If you have the commercial product, then you can use the Talend admin centre (TAC). The TAC allows you to schedule a job more than once with different contexts. Or, if you want to keep the parallelization logic inside your job, then consider using the tParallelize component in one job to run another job N times.
The result of SqlWorkflowInstanceStore.WaitForEvents does not tell me what type of workflow is runnable. The constructor of WorkflowApplication takes a workflow definition, and at a minimum, I need to be able to store a workflow ID in the store and query it, so that I can determine which workflow definition to load for the WorkflowApplication.
I also don't want to create a SqlWorkflowInstanceStore for each custom workflow type, since there may be thousands of different workflows.
I thought about trying to use WorkflowServiceHost, but not every workflow has a Receive activity and I don't think it is feasible to have thousands of WorkflowServiceHosts running, each supporting a different workflow type.
Ideally, I just want to query the database for a runnable workflow, determine its workflow definition ID, load the appropriate XAML from a workflow definition table, instantiate WorkflowApplication with the workflow definition, and call LoadRunnableInstance().
I would like to have a way to correlate which workflow is related to a given HasRunnableWorkflowEvent raised by the SqlWorkflowInstanceStore (along with the custom workflow definition ID), or have an alternate way of supporting potentially thousands of different custom workflow types created at runtime. I must also load balance the execution of workflows across multiple application servers.
There's a free product from Microsoft that does pretty much everything you say there, and then some. Oh, and it's excellent too.
Windows Server AppFabric. No, not Azure.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/app-main.aspx
-Oisin
I have 7 workflow that need to execute; that need to run in certain order ? Is there any scheduling service for this in wf4 or any other approach i can use?
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If you need to run them sequentially in a certain order, why not just create another workflow and put all 7 of your workflows as activities in a top sequential activity?
If you create an activity that derives fron NativeActivity you can schedule child activities in any order you like. That is the closest thing to a "SchedulerService" I can think of.
However you have to know the activites you want to run at compile time. You can only arrange the order differently using this approach.
If you don't know which activities you want to use at compile time you could use a parent/child technique I showed on my blog WF4 How To Invoke a Child Workflow as XAML