BPEL: Scheduling reoccuring processes

After seing some questions around periodically starting new BPELProcess instances, I thought to publish some ideas here...

Suppose you want to have a new process triggered every minute, what are the options?

• Implement a master process, that has a <while> and a <wait> that is configured for the time to make the process sleepling
  
  
  
  • Advantage: It's BPEL
  
  
  • Disadvantage: As it contains a wait and some other activities that might lead to (de)hydration, you fill you database
  
  
  
  


• Use the Oracle RDBMS Job Scheduler (dbms_job package) that will start your process periodically
  
  
  • Advantage: One time implemented, backed up with the DB, and pattform independend
  
  
  • Disadvantage: It's bound to an Oracle DB, and you need to know at least some pl\sql, the rest is java
  
  
  
  


• Use a Timer EJB (provided with a j2ee compliant java container)
  
  
  • Advantage: it's a statefull bean, so it will get saved, and revovered when the container goes down, use java to implement
  
  
  • Disadvantage: Dependend on the container you are using
  
  
  
  


• Use QUARTZ, the open source scheduler
  
  
  • Advantage: It's opensource and Oracle BPELPM uses it for scheduling
  
  
  
  

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