The issue we are trying to resolve is not around workflows. It is around the compliant core for such scenarios to prevent SONAR issues.

We have auto-advanced steps in the workflow which are being done by separate processes. Once the process reads the file, it created some data nodes in AEM and replicates those in order to persist them. Once it calls the replicate command, we are waiting for some time so that the next process access the correct data. So, if the wait is not there, the next process might read incomplete/unpublished data.

The main thread is waiting for some background process to complete while the main thread is sleeping.The workflow reads a file and stores the processed data internally. We have called Thread.sleep in workflow process so that internally AEM can complete its processing