Hey Keith,

On Mar 6, 2012, at 8:31 AM, Keith Cummings wrote:

> I have the same question Michael is asking (#1 below).  If a precondition 
> never passes, I do not want that workflow-task to indefinitely poll on that 
> precondition.

Right now (0.3) the work around is to:

1. stop the workflow (interactively) using the cmd line or via code in the Java 
API
2. "resume" the workflow, thus kicking it out of wait state using the cmd line 
or the Java API

>  At some point (preferably a configurable amount of time) it should give up 
> and fail (halt) the workflow.  Or is there another way to address this Use 
> Case?

Yep, in 0.4 we do address it. See OODT-215 [1] and OODT-207 [2].

HTH!

Cheers,
Chris

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-215
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-207

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