Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Summary
Persistence is an excellent way to maintain and resolve long running processes, as well as
to release resources from an environment when they're not needed. We've seen that persist-
ence is not a way to provide searchable information, but a way to provide a recovery point
that is not directly readable by people. However, we've also seen that we can provide such
functionality either by enabling object marshalling strategies and history logs, or by imple-
menting our own strategies or persistence mechanism.
During the next chapter, we will understand how jBPM6 integrates with other types of en-
tities, such as
rules
,
events
, and
complex event processing
, a concept we started discuss-
