Business Event Processing
Business event processing allows you to monitor activity of running or completed BPEL processes. For example, you might want to know, "What is the average time for service X to process an order?" where service X is an invoke activity in your process, and you are evaluating a given number of completed processes over a certain time.
Another example of a business event to process is, "Alert me if the average time it takes to claim a task exceeds N minutes." In this case, you can send an alert when a certain business condition is met.
The basic steps required for business event processing are the following:
- •Define an event. Refer to Defining an Event in the Process Deployment Descriptor.
- •Deploy the event-based processes
- •Create an event action process that runs based on a matching business condition
- •Design and deploy the event-action process to manage and monitor events
- •Deploy and run the processes that have defined events
Some of the benefits of using eventing include:
- •Get alerted when certain conditions occur that warrant human intervention
- •Monitor processes in action and spot abnormalities
- •View reports of activity
- •Perform the analysis of a process that has already completed in order to view the cause of a problem
The following topics discuss business event processing: