I am working on using Drools to manage authorization. I don't want to use the jBPM objects in my rules, so I created some simple wrapper objects. [just because I want to abstract from the Drools internals]. Here is what I do: | create a new process instance. | kick start the process (signal it). | | as soon as the first TaskNode is encountered (started: | - assert all my relevant business objects | - assert a BpmSwimlane(name,actorId) for all SwimlaneInstances that exist at that moment | - assert a PooledBpmActor(swimlaneName,pooledActorId) for all the existing PooledActors from every existing SwimlaneInstance | - fire the rules | - retrieve all PooledBpmActors | then I iterate again through the existing SwimlaneInstances and assign it a new PooledActors set: a set of "new PooledActor(pooledActorId,swimlaneInstance,null)" The thing is, when I then try to retrieve findPooledTaskInstances(actorId), I get an empty list. Is there something I am missing? Looking into the database, I find my swimlane instance and in the corresponding pooledactors table there is my actorid. thanks, willem View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3962220#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...