Error Handling Inside BPM Process

Question

Hi All,
I have a scenario in which, when a BPM Process errors out due to any of the System Exception I'm catching it using a Event SubProcess activity and handling it.
Problem:
I want the control to get back to the next activity i.e Normal Process should resume once the control is out of the Event SubProcess.
I found that using a Normal Subprocess with boundary event helps to resume the flow back to normal control. But Its difficult to have individual Subprocesses for N number of activities.
Is there any other method to overcome this?
Please provide a solution.
Two Cents,
Karthick.

Answer 1

I'll bow out of this thread after this post, but a couple thoughts.
You might have seen these, but here are some links that should help you. If you have not already looked at Fault Policies, pay particular attention to this in the posts below:
Fault Handling in Oracle SOA Suite
http://beatechnologies.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/fault-handling-in-oracle-soa-suite-advanced-concepts/
Fault Handling and Prevention - Part 1
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/soa/luttikhuizen-fault-handling-1-1877036.html
Fault Policy
http://error0.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/howto-use-the-fault-management-framework-with-oracle-bpm/
I don't mean for this to sound harsh and please keep in mind that I don't know the problem you're trying to solve or what you're process looks like.
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Yes we do, but we have many activities inside a single process since the business is big.
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Sounds like you're pretty far down the road now, but just a word of caution. I've found myself on projects with large processes. It's not just exception handling that you'll find more difficult, but many things became more cumbersome to maintain in a large process.
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A thought of using Boundary Events with subprocess looks good but its not possible to use a single sub process for all boundary events in order to resume to normal activity.
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I did not follow this. If you invoke a subprocess using a Call activity, you'd be able to add a boundary event on the Call activities for the activities in the called sub process. You'd also have a process that is easier to read and maintain.
Dan