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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi there,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I just began exploring the capabilities of drools and also considered its applicability for typical EAI scenarios.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">It really may be a beginner's question. But I took the simple example workflow and inserted a Thread.sleep() for its task action.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I experienced the blocking startProcess() as discussed here: </FONT>
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<P><A HREF="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1326718/how-to-start-multiple-processes-in-drools-flow"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1326718/how-to-start-multiple-processes-in-drools-flow</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">So did I miss something or how would it be possible to get the internal ID of the WF instance right after starting it before its completion to be able to query the engine proactively during runtime?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I also see that this relates to </FONT><A HREF="http://www.mail-archive.com/rules-users@lists.jboss.org/msg05828.html"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.mail-archive.com/rules-users@lists.jboss.org/msg05828.html</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">, but I also don't see a solution here.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks and Best</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Markus</FONT>
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