BPM 11g and Human Workflow Shadow Rows by Adam Desjardin
- by JuergenKress
During the OFM Forum last week,
there were a few discussions around the relationship between the Human
Workflow (WF_TASK*) tables in the SOA_INFRA schema and BPMN processes.
It is important to know how these are related because it can have a
performance impact. We have seen this performance issue several times
when BPMN processes are used to model high volume system integrations
without knowing all of the implications of using BPMN in this pattern.
Most people assume that BPMN instances and their related data are
stored in the CUBE_*, DLV_*, and AUDIT_* tables in the same way that
BPEL instances are stored, with additional data in the BPM_* tables as
well. The group of tables that is not usually considered though is the
WF* tables that are used for Human Workflow. The WFTASK table is used
by all BPMN processes in order to support features such as process level
comments and attachments, whether those features are currently used in
the process or not.
For a standard human task that is created from a BPMN process, the following data is stored in the WFTASK table:
One row per human task that is created
The COMPONENTTYPE = "Workflow"
TASKDEFINITIONID = Human Task ID (partition/CompositeName!Version/TaskName)
ACCESSKEY = NULL
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