mike, When creating the ProcessInstance, you will get a processInstanceId back. Save it. The processInstanceId is the key into the jBPM API world. If you want to find out all the current tasks (often only 1) for your process instance then you do this: taskService.createTaskQuery().processInstanceId(youSavedId).list() Then if you want to bump the Task on to the next one ... do something like this: outcomes = taskService.getOutcomes(tasks[0].getId()) // gets outcomes just for the first currently running task. then do: taskService.completeTask( tasks[0].getId(), yourDesiredOutcome) Etienne View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4267183#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...