Apama 10.11.3 | Developing Apama Applications | Developing Apama Applications in EPL | Implementing Parallel Processing | Introduction to contexts
 
Introduction to contexts
 
What is inside/outside a context?
About context properties
Context lifecycle
Comparison of a correlator and a context
Contexts allow EPL applications to organize work into threads that the correlator can execute concurrently.
In EPL, context is a reference type. When you create a variable of type context, or an event field of type context, you are actually creating an object that refers to a context. The context might or might not already exist. You can then use the context reference to spawn to the context or send an event to the context. When you spawn to a context, the correlator creates the context if it does not already exist.