Task decomposition with throttled message processing in a heterogeneous environment

摘要

Tasks for a business process can be decomposed into subtasks represented by messages. Message processing can be throttled in a heterogeneous environment. For example, message processing at subtask nodes can be individually throttled at the node level by controlling the number of instances of subtask processors for the subtask node. An infrastructure built with framework components can be used for a variety of business process tasks, separating business logic from the framework logic. Thus, intelligent scalability across platform types can be provided for large scale business processes with reduced development time and resources.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving a request to process a business process task; decomposing the business process task into at least one discrete subtask, wherein the at least one discrete subtask is associated with one out of a plurality of subtask types and the at least one discrete subtask is represented by a message; based at least on the subtask type, routing the message to a subtask node dedicated to processing subtasks of the subtask type associated with the at least one discrete subtask; wherein the subtask node is one of a plurality of subtask nodes dedicated to processing subtasks of respective subtask types, and the subtask node is separately throttleable to control resources applied by the subtask node for processing subtasks of the subtask type; wherein the plurality of subtask nodes comprises a heterogeneous mixture of platform types and a heterogeneous mixture of messaging backbones; and wherein the subtask node comprises a heterogeneous mixture of platform types and a heterogeneous mixture of messaging backbones.