Oracle BPM Suite 12c Modeling Patterns

External Exception Handling Pattern

When a process/service is invoked and it raises an exception, there are various exception-handling mechanisms to deal with these exceptions. This section is dedicated to the third scenario where an exception raised by an invoked process/service is handled by an external exception handler. Check the process state diagram and you can relate this scenario with the pointer K. An assigned activity invokes a process/service. The invoked process/service raises an exception. The exception is not handled inside the process/service nor does the assigned activity (invoking activity) has a Boundary Catch Event. Hence, the exception gets propagated outside the assigned activity and it's caught by an external event subprocess ...