Error Handling in Automated Activities

Hi experts,

I have a question regarding error handling in automated activities in a BPM Process. I have seen various postings and articles regarding exception handling with boundary events. But it seems that for this to work of course your web service has to support these events.

But lets step on way back: What happens if my process instance cannot access the web service of the automated task because the server is not available for wathever reasons (network down etc.) or the web service call gets a timeout?

Is there a possibliity to handle these kind of problems in the BPM Process and how?

Thanks for your feedback and best regards!

Stefan Brauneis