Thanks, Alexis, but i'm no closer to fully understanding why this occurs.  It 
happens periodically now almost everyday with different deployed processes.  
Although I don't understand it, I have done some research into the behaviour.  
Here's a scenario:
 
we'll deploy ProcessA-19, then retire it with ProcessA-20 deployment.  At some 
point it, or another, process will fail and attempt to go into recovery mode 
(excuse me if I state this incorrectly),  at this point ODE will create a 
scheduled job in an attempt to retry the service later.
 
Here's where it gets screwy.  From then on, all new calls to ProcessA will not 
route to ProcessA-20, but ode will attempt to route them to ProcessA-19, which 
is of course retired. Ode does not recover from this.  It seems the only way to 
compensate is to redeploy ProcessA as ProcessA-21.  New requests will then 
route correctly.
 
Any idea here?  



----- Original Message ----
From: Alexis Midon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, October 8, 2008 7:26:54 PM
Subject: Re: Client calling retired process?

Hi Chris,

No new executions can be started on a retired process, but running instances
can still finish their job. [1]

I'm not really familiar with this part of the code, but after looking at it,
it seems to me that the deployment of a new version is not atomic. Meaning
that a process could be flagged as retired while the creation of a new
instance is in progress, hence you're exception.

does it make sense regarding your scenario? is it possible that the process
gets retired while messages are coming in?

[1] further details here:
http://ode.apache.org/user-guide.html#UserGuide-Versioning



On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Chris Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Okay, I've a deployment (called GetCodes) bundle that includes 5
> processes.  4 of the processes make calls to the fifth (it's an abstraction
> layer of process business logic).  When I deploy this "GetCodes" bundle
> using the DeploymentService utility, I can see an incremented deployment
> (say, GetCodes-40) alongside previous iterations.
>
> Occasionally, I'll have a client making soap calls to one of the processes
> under this logical bundle that will fail with the following error:
>
> InvalidProcessException: Process is retired.
>
> In the logs, it's clear that ODE is directing this client call to
> GetCodes-39 - though the client isn't explicitly attempting to call a
> specific version (is that even possible?).  Any clue why some clients
> periodically - erroneously - are directed by ODE to a retired process
> version?
>
>
>



      

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