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BPEL process migration: Changes to the descriptive and quality-of-service properties of process instances

If the new version of the BPEL process contains only changes to the descriptive, or quality-of-service properties, or both, you can migrate existing process instances at any time during the process navigation.

The following property changes are supported.

Processes

  • Automatically delete the process after completion
  • Business relevant
  • Continue on Error
  • Description
  • Display name
  • Documentation
  • Ignore missing data
  • Suppress join failure

Activities

  • Business relevant
  • Continue on Error
  • Description
  • Display name
  • Documentation
  • Suppress join failure
  • Transactional Behavior

Links

  • Description
  • Display name
  • Documentation

Variables

  • Business relevant

In addition, you can change the monitor event specifications for process constructs, such as activities, and variables.

BPEL process model changes and runtime migration