the token's subProcessInstance attribute is not set on subprocess-end event if a process is loaded from db ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBPM-462 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBPM-462 Project: JBoss jBPM Issue Type: Bug Components: Core Engine Affects Versions: jBPM 3.0.1, jBPM 3.0.2 Reporter: Eduardo Jimenez Assigned To: Tom Baeyens Fix For: jBPM 3.1 Token.subprocessinstance is not a persistent field, which means that if the subprocess is started, saved, then loaded in a different hibernate session later, the token.subprocessinstance field is null, which means that if you have an action on a subprocess-end event, its not going to know which subprocess ended. making the list of subprocesses is great, but it doesn't solve this problem. My gut feeling is that this should be treated as it is treated during subprocess creation: Code: public void execute(ExecutionContext executionContext) { Token superProcessToken = executionContext.getToken(); // create the subprocess ProcessInstance subProcessInstance = new ProcessInstance(subProcessDefinition); // bind the subprocess to the super-process-token superProcessToken.setSubProcessInstance(subProcessInstance); subProcessInstance.setSuperProcessToken(superProcessToken); // fire the subprocess created event fireEvent(Event.EVENTTYPE_SUBPROCESS_CREATED, executionContext); ..... See how the superProcessToken gets a nice setSubProcessInstance? That way the subprocess-created event knows which subprocess was created. The current code on notifySubProcessEnd is: Code: public void notifySubProcessEnd(ProcessInstance subProcessInstance) { Token superProcessToken = subProcessInstance.getSuperProcessToken(); ExecutionContext executionContext = new ExecutionContext(superProcessToken); // feed the readable variables if ((variableAccesses != null) && (!variableAccesses.isEmpty())) { .... .... } // feed the readable variables fireEvent(Event.EVENTTYPE_SUBPROCESS_END, executionContext); .... I think it is very reasonable to do instead Code: public void notifySubProcessEnd(ProcessInstance subProcessInstance) { Token superProcessToken = subProcessInstance.getSuperProcessToken(); superProcessToken.setSubProcessInstance(subProcessInstance); ExecutionContext executionContext = new ExecutionContext(superProcessToken); // feed the readable variables if ((variableAccesses != null) && (!variableAccesses.isEmpty())) { .... .... } // fire the subprocess ended event fireEvent(Event.EVENTTYPE_SUBPROCESS_END, executionContext); .... In this way, the subprocess-end event will pass a context where the token correctly contains the subprocess instance even if being loaded after being persisted while the subprocess was going on.