Business processes that run in enterprise applications describe certain flows of process executions. For use cases that are triggered, this either includes a synchronous request-response approach or asynchronous handling of the triggered process.

Use case invocations run in a separate thread, one thread per request or invocation, respectively. The threads are created by the container and pooled for reuse once the invocation has been handled successfully. By default, the business processes defined in the application classes, as well as cross-cutting concerns, such as transactions, run sequentially.