3. Business Process Functionality

This chapter provides an overview of business processes, and describes the mechanism of business processes, how to make a business process persistent or non-persistent, transaction of business processes, re-execution of business processes, and standby processing of business processes. This chapter also describes process instances, activities, variables, and correlation sets having a deep relationship with business processes.

Organization of this chapter

3.1 Overview of business processes

3.2 Mechanism of business processes

3.3 Business processes that are to be made persistent and that are not to be made persistent

3.4 Transaction of a business process

3.5 Re-executinga business process

3.6 Standby processing using business processes

3.7 Asynchronous execution of an activity that is defined after reply activity