Nice! Ideally, a fork/join combo should always be used, but I've seen my share of processes in which this wasn't feasable. I've checked it with some folks at work and all of them agreed that reaching the end-state means the end of the process and the end of doing operations on that process. So I believe the choice for JPDL 4 is well made. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4155055#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...