the correct start state is : start-state name="enter request" task name="request entry" swimlane="ernie" controller variable name="start date" access="read,write,required" variable name="duration" access="read,write,required" /controller /task transition name="" to="evaluate request" /start-state View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4111810#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...