Introduction

We will introduce the concept of a external flow container (EFC). This is a way to include a (remote) application into your application.

Reasons to do this are:

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The external flow is a concept that allows embedding and starting a flow from a (remote) project, without the use of Portal Messages.

The value of this functionality is to get:

• a good design of the solution:
  • Structure your application
  • Make your solution scalable
• a good application UX:
  • The end user directly see which information is loaded and what not
• a good application model:
  • Modelling is more explicit which brings clarity in the model

Conceptually it works as depicted in the following figure.

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Also the concept of a contract is needed: see Contract module.

Prerequisites

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Limitations

• Running the external flow using host and target runtimes with different major and minor versions is not supported.

Pros

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• To split up large applications
• In control
• Short release cycle
• Release part is small
• Target inactive ...
• Docker ??

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