>  I'm trying to figure out how best to throttle/regulate the launching
>  of workflows.  I have a python apre agent that is a cron engine-level
>  service.  It has the potential of launching workflows faster than the
>  java apre agent can finish them.   One approach I am trying is to have
>  the python apre agent query the store associated with the first apre
>  participant in a workflow sequence.  If that store items size is
>  larger than N, no workflow is launched.  So my question is:  if an
>  apre agent is executing use(), will work items stack up in its store
>  until use() completes if the agent is a 'once' type?

Hi Anthony,

well, agents do not have stores associated with them...

Maybe your launching agent/service could keep a count of the flows it
launched in within the last 30 secs and pause itself until that count,
having reached a limit, drops to zero.

I hope this will help...

John


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