Defining administration in a BPEL process
When you define administrative rights in a BPEL process, you involve human tasks and grant organizational control over some or all of the BPEL process to a select group of users.
About this task
This group of users will be able to interact with the
process in the runtime environment through the Business Process Choreographer
explorer, and will be able to exercise various levels of control.
When we speak of administration in a BPEL process, we are actually
talking about control over two different areas of the BPEL process.
- Administration over the entire BPEL process
- Those with administrative control over a BPEL process have the authority to terminate, suspend, resume, or delete an instance of that process.
- Administration over an activity within the BPEL process
- Administrative control can be granted over invoke, scope, collaboration scope and snippet activities. With the invoke activity, the administrative authority include the ability to handle faults that may arise, or to force retry or force complete long-running activities. For the collaboration scope and scope activities, the administrative duties include the authority to modify the execution order of the activities nested within the scope activity.