Patent attributes
Techniques for processing a request may include: providing tasks to a state machine framework, wherein the tasks perform processing of a workflow for servicing the request; generating, by the state machine framework, a state machine for processing the request, wherein the state machine includes states associated with the tasks, wherein generating the state machine may include automatically determining a first state transition of the state machine between a first and a second of the states; receiving the request; and responsive to receiving the request, performing first processing using the state machine to service the request. The framework may automatically generate triggers that drive the state machine to determine subsequent states in accordance with defined state transitions. State machine internal state information may be persistently stored and used in restoring the state machine to one of its states in connection processing of the command.