Ted Pan [https://community.jboss.org/people/ted.pan] created the discussion "Terminate end event in subprocess must not terminate parent process?" To view the discussion, visit: https://community.jboss.org/message/779138#779138 -------------------------------------------------------------- hi, from the issue https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBPM-3371 https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBPM-3371 it says that *Terminate end event in subprocess must not terminate parent process.* the following is copied from the issue, in case someone could not access the issue tracker. *    According to the spec a terminate node in the subprocess aborts the execution in the subprocess. "Then the process continues on the normal flow" out of the subprocess [Bruce Silver, BPMN Method & Style, p. 82]* *The spec says:* *Sub-process level end events* *For a "terminate" End Event, the Sub-Process is abnormally terminated. In case of a multi-instance Sub-Process, only the affected instance is terminated—no other ongoing Sub-Process instances or higher-level Sub-Process or Process instances are affected.* but from document http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v5.4/userguide/ch.core-basics.html#d0e1529 http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v5.4/userguide/ch.core-basics.html#d0e1529 *  Note that, if you use a terminating event node inside a sub-process, you are terminating the top-level process instance, not just that sub-process.* in my case, a subprocess will signal an event to parent process, then goes to a terminating node. in parent process, there is a Catching Signal Event to catch the event, then go to other node. when running same code in different machines, one faster machine always works as what I want. the process go to the Catching Signal Event. On the other slower machine, there is always an exception thrown out in the backend log Gateway:104] -- XOR split could not find at least one valid outgoing connection for split Gateway ( the content of this exception is not important, as my understanding, the process is still going on after the subprocess). So my question is that *which one is correct*? and why the behavior is different? Thanks (I'm using jPBM5.4) -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [https://community.jboss.org/message/779138#779138] Start a new discussion in jBPM at Community [https://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]