Ed, you can now (with the code in cvs) do something like this: <process-definition name="door" initial="generatePdf"> | | <node name="generatePdf"> | <action class="your.class.that.GeneratesAPdfFile"> | <transition to="next" /> | </state> | | <state name="next"> | ... | so when you then do a new ProcessInstance(processDefinition), execution of the GeneratesAPdfFile will be done already in that constructor. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4012523#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...