Parallel gateway issue

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I have a usecase something like this in workflow:

User task -> service task -> service task-> service task-> service task-> user task.

Now when user completes 1st task, 4 service calls happens which are nothing but 3rd party api call. Now user has to wait for almost 10-12 sec before these 4 calls and finished and next form appears on screen. Now my question is how can i make these 4 service calls parallel as they are not inter dependent. Using a parallel gateway doesn’t solve the problem since it also performs in sequential order. i tried parallel gateway with async and i got optimistic locking exception. Is there a way i can call these 4 async in parallel. Also what i noticed is that when these 4 tasks are async, the main thread comes to user task directly after submitting 4 tasks to async executor. what happens if any of these 3rd party api calls failed? i want user to be taken back to 1st screen instead of 2nd screen ie rollback all the transactions. Basically i want to save users 10-12 sec(so he doesnt feel the process is slow) and also want to make sure that he doesn’t move ahead without success from all the 4 service tasks.

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When you mark a service task as asynchronous, the service task gets placed in a job queue and executed at some point in the future. If that job fails, it will get automatically retried up to 3 times. If all 3 retries fail it will get placed in a dead letter queue for later action.

If you need all four calls to execute successfully and want them to execute in parallel, you might be better served writing a service task to do the calls in Java. You’ll loose some transparency, but gain some efficiency.