topic Re: Jobs and long running tasks in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/jobs-and-long-running-tasks/m-p/212538#M165668 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi Raghavan,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Async behaviour description </SPAN><A href="http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#bpmnConcurrencyAndTransactions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#bpmnConcurrencyAndTransactions</A><SPAN>.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>In your case I would you messages/signals instead of async (which is not meant to do this job). The scenario could be:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>process triggers long running task (do not wait on the end of the task) and waits in the message/signal intermediate catching event on the response from the long running task. When long running task is finished, it sends the message/signal and process instance can continue in the process execution.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Martin</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Jul 2016 07:02:06 GMT martin_grofcik 2016-07-13T07:02:06Z Jobs and long running tasks https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/jobs-and-long-running-tasks/m-p/212537#M165667 I have a situation and it's quite likely that I don't properly understand how asynchronous tasks work.&nbsp; Here's a brief description:1. Our workflows include several long running tasks (order of hours) that are Java Service tasks.&nbsp; These tasks make an asynchronous call to an external system and poll t Thu, 30 Jun 2016 21:06:20 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/jobs-and-long-running-tasks/m-p/212537#M165667 krraghavan 2016-06-30T21:06:20Z Re: Jobs and long running tasks https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/jobs-and-long-running-tasks/m-p/212538#M165668 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi Raghavan,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Async behaviour description </SPAN><A href="http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#bpmnConcurrencyAndTransactions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#bpmnConcurrencyAndTransactions</A><SPAN>.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>In your case I would you messages/signals instead of async (which is not meant to do this job). The scenario could be:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>process triggers long running task (do not wait on the end of the task) and waits in the message/signal intermediate catching event on the response from the long running task. When long running task is finished, it sends the message/signal and process instance can continue in the process execution.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Martin</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Jul 2016 07:02:06 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/jobs-and-long-running-tasks/m-p/212538#M165668 martin_grofcik 2016-07-13T07:02:06Z