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Cordys BOP4: Avoid deadlocks !

Problem

Today we went into a deadlock situation in our project. I like to share this case so that other Cordys developers are aware of this potential problem.

Case:
We have defined the following Long Lived Process.


So we have 1 subprocess and a webservice call.
There is 1 BPM Service Container that handles BPMs and Cases.
The problem is with the webservice call. This is also a call that is handled by a BPM container, however NOT on the same thread as the one that started this BPM instance. So in case the long-lived thread pool is full, the webservice can not be handled by the BPM container and all BPM instances are locked.

Solution

Define a separate BPM Service Container for the Case Management handling and in this case the call is handled by a different thread pool.

In general keep aware that in LongLived BPMs it can be dangerous to call BPM Webservices (like BPM generated webservices, case webservices, executeProcess webservice).

Note:
More can be found also on the Cordys Wiki: https://wiki.cordys.com/display/dp/Process+Execution+Modes+and+Thread+Pool+usage

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