This component acts both as a composite step (having just one branch) and as a Step that has parallel branches that are executed in parallel to each other. The details are summarized here in the tutorial. A typical example for the usage is shown in the next Figure (component "p"):
In the following table different configurations of a Parallel component are shown:
use_inPort=true
use_inPort=true
use_outPort=true
use_inPort=true
use_suspend=true
use_activePort=true
initialStep=true
