4. Concepts

Concepts

These concepts apply across Stateflows behavior types:

• Events and Structural Events - Define the contracts that behaviors receive and process.
• Messaging Patterns - Send events, request responses, and publish or subscribe to notifications.
• Validation - Validate events before behavior execution.
• Scheduling - Deliver events at a specified time or on a recurring schedule.
• Observability - Inspect definitions and observe execution.

For notification lifetime, history, and retries, see Notification Retention.