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BPMN21 — Event-based gateways in choreography should be exclusive

  • Key: BPMN21-18
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14668
  • Status: open  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    An event-based gateway implies a message is being waited for, but
    choreographies can't receive messages, they have no central controller.
    One of the participants will have an event-based gateway internally, but
    the other will have a exclusive gateway. The choreography can use an
    exclusive gateway with no conditions, with the semantics is that exactly
    one of the following messages will be sent.

    Comments:
    From: conrad.bock created: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:53:49 -0500 (CDT)
    Email from Frank about conditions on exclusive gateways in choreographies:

    Hello Conrad,

    In my opinion there is no need to even have data as decision criteria.
    There may be a button, that a user presses (request xy..). Of course you
    can discuss, that the fact, that a button has been pressed is in itself
    data in the system. But it is a different kind of.

    So in the case of two senders there are two users and two buttons.
    Whoever presses first sends first.
    Whoever sends second is in a different branch of the choreography.
    That's how I understand it.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT