Asynchronous BPEL Process

A Asynchronous Process is one which you call and need not wait for the response before proceeding further. You may just initiate the Asynchronous process and receive the response when you require it as a part of your process, hence you are not forced to wait for response.

For analogy sake, let me give you an example for better understanding. I have chosen simplicity of the analogy above technical similarity.

Real life example of a Synchronous process: You call a friend and ask him to give you some information. While your friend is finding out the information for you, you are on the call waiting for his response. Note that connection is not dropped

Real life example of an Asynchronous process: You call a friend and ask him to give you some information. You ask him to call you back when the information is ready and you disconnect the call. When your friend is ready with the information, he calls you and gives you the information. Note that you don’t wait for a response from your friend and connection is lost. When your friend is ready, he has to establish a new connection and then provide you the information