MessageCatchEvent with a timeout?

[zlatan316]

Hi,

I have a messagecatchevent node in a diagram in 5.14, which waits until it is triggered by an external JAR running outside of Activiti. Sometimes this jar may have an unhandled exception, after which it doesn't message back to the activiti diagram's messagecatchevent.

Is there a way to set a maximum duration to the messagecatchevent so that if it hasnt recieved anything by a given time, it carries on automatically, or takes another route?

Regards,

[jbarrez]

Add a timer boundary next to the message catch to get that timeout.

[zlatan316]

Thanks Jorram, but wont this mean that the MessageCatchEvent will remain open forever in the database? Hence someone could theoretically start that event and redo work already executed by the timer next in the sequence?

[jbarrez]

No, the message catch event will be deleted when the embedded subprocess is destroyed.