Suspend

ActiveBPEL™ Designer User’s Guide

Suspend

This is an ActiveBPEL extension activity. When you save the process, a message appears informing you that the process contains an activity that is not in the BPEL specification.

The suspend activity suspends a running process. This activity is useful for catching unexpected faults to allow manual intervention for viewing and correcting errors. The optional variable attribute can be used to attach data to an alert which both automatic and programmatic suspends can trigger.

In ActiveBPEL Enterprise, you can perform process exception management on a suspended process. On the ActiveBPEL Enterprise server, you can conveniently view the location of a faulting activity.

Required and optional properties for suspend
Required Properties	Optional Properties
none	Name. See Selecting Activity Labels
	Variable
	Join Condition. See Creating a Join Condition for an Incoming Link
	Suppress Join Failure. See Process Properties
	Comment. See Adding Comments to a Process
	Documentation. See Adding Documentation to a Process
	Setting Visual Properties and Using Your Own Library of Images
	Execution State. See Viewing the Execution State of an Activity or Link
	Extension Attributes and Extension Elements. See Declaring Extension Elements and Attributes.

To build a suspend activity:

From the Activity palette, drag a suspend activity to the Process Editor canvas.
Add the activity to an appropriate container, such as a fault handler’s catch or catchAll activity, or link another activity to it.

The following illustration shows an example of using the suspend activity.

Suspend activity in a fault handler

XML Syntax

<suspend variable="NCName"? standard-attributes>

  standard-elements

</suspend>

Example

<catchAll>

   <extensionActivity>

     <ext:suspend/>

   </extensionActivity>

</catchAll>