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Delete Job - why would you do that?

jritter — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 12:55:58 GMT

HiI'm trying to understand asynchronous executions, and was experimenting with error handling. As far as I've understood, the default behaviour if an exception is thrown in an async service task is to retry 3 times. Activiti Explorer offers an option to execute this job, which does a retry.What I've

Re: Delete Job - why would you do that?

trademak — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 11:41:47 GMT

Hi Jürg,

Deleting a job is a very uncommon use case for a job created by a process instance indeed. But the job mechanism in Activiti is open for use of your own custom job types as well. And for custom job types it could be useful to be able to delete them.

Best regards,

Re: Delete Job - why would you do that?

jritter — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 08:07:24 GMT

Hi Tijs

Thanks a lot for your comment, I really appreciate it. That makes sense.

Best regards,
Jürg