Parallel rule execution in a RuleFlowSteven,

It depends on what kind of activities you are trying to execute in each of your 
branches.  The AND-split will not assign different threads to each of the 
branches, but trigger the outgoing branches one after the other. However, this 
results in parallelism when one of the branches contains wait states.  For 
example, if I add two parallel human tasks in my flow, the and split will first 
create the first task and not wait for its completion but also trigger the 
creation of the second task.  At that point, both tasks are executing in 
parallel.

So parallel execution will occur if you execute your work asynchronously (using 
work items) or have wait states (like an event wait or timer node).  And we 
recommend users to use asynchronous work items to execute actions that are not 
instantaneous but might take some time to process.

Kris

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steven Hale 
  To: [email protected] 
  Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:38 PM
  Subject: [rules-users] Parallel rule execution in a RuleFlow


  I've been experimenting with ruleflows and in particular parallel execution. 
According to the documentation an AND split
  "means that the control flow will continue in all outgoing connections 
simultaneously".

  I've been unable to demonstrate this. All my rules in one branch always 
execute before the rules on the other branch (I have an AND join joining these 
branches again).

  Is this the expected behaviour or am I doing something wrong?

  /Steven




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