The following table provides an overview of the execution modes and their typical uses.
Execution mode |
Instances in same group are serialized |
Information can be preserved across invocations |
Example usage |
|---|---|---|---|
Concurrent |
No |
No |
Gather metadata from the internal job ticket of a job and produce an XML file (all done in scripting) |
Serialized |
Yes |
No |
Control a command-line application that is launched and terminated within each invocation of jobArrived |
Persistent |
Yes |
Yes |
Control a command-line application that needs to be kept alive between invocations of jobArrived |