Sebastian Schneider [http://community.jboss.org/people/sebastian.s] replied to the discussion "JBPM-2537" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/540455#540455 -------------------------------------------------------------- Huisheng Xu: I was not aware of this issue and its bugfix. Thank you for pointing out. Nevertheless I don't see why adding this method to ExternalActivityBehaviour is not a good design. Ronald has been thinking this carefully. When implementating custom nodes which also need a timeout behaviour this would be already useful. Please also consider Maciej's point: For me cancelling a task and timeouts have to be clearly distinguished from the completion and deletion of tasks because they all mean different history data being related. If there is an escalation/timeout I don't want the task to be treated as if it was deleted. Deleting tasks should only be possible for tasks not belonging to a process/execution. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/540455#540455] Start a new discussion in jBPM Development at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]