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Different behaviour between parallel and inclusive gateways
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Hello,
It seems that Parallel and Inclusive Gateways don't have the same behaviour (in the same configuration).
Tests done on processes with 3 parallel branches (1 branch with a catching message event):
I have used 2 test sets: 1 using Parallel gateways, 1 using Inclusive gateways.
And the Inclusive gateway use always the 3 branches (should so be equivalent to the parallel gateway, without default branch for this test).
**Test set 1: Parallel gateways**

**Test set 2: Inclusive gateways**

For each set, different settings on the Join gateway (4):
- Sync (no Async & Exclusive flags)
- Sync & Exclusive
- Async
- Async & Exclusive
What is strange to me is that we do not get the same result with parallel and inclusive gateways.
With Parallel gateway, we have 2 scenarios without OptimisticLock exception.
_But with Inclusive gateway, all scenarios generate an OptimisticLock exception!.._
And it’s really problematic (to me at least :)).
For now, I see 2 "workarounds" to avoid OptimisticLockExceptions:
- use a Triggerable task to embed both Send and Receive tasks. But in this case, no way to use a Camel task. And not sure it will solve the problem.
- convert my parallel process in a serial process (3 branches in 1), but really not what I want..
Here's the post in the forum:
https://forum.flowable.org/t/different-behaviour-between-parallel-and-inclusive-gateways-tests-using-async-and-or-exclusive-flags/3848
I join the project I used for my tests (includes 8 BPMN & Java Test file):
[UnitTesting-ParallelGateway.zip](https://github.com/flowable/flowable-engine/files/3171583/UnitTesting-ParallelGateway.zip)
Best Regards
William
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