What should happen is that an automatic task instance is created upon the node-enter event, when the StartCheck handler is executed and the TaskMgmtInstance.createTaskInstance(...) method is called; this should trigger the task-create event by which the CreateTimerAction should be executed (which was inserted when the process definition containing the task node was parsed from its XML form). This CreateTimerAction is supposed to be creating the timer instance in the Scheduler service (i.e. saving the timer job on the JobSession). My advice would be to crank up the logging levels to reveal the jBPM debug entries and see whether the expected events occur and if the timer is saved to the JobSession. Then you may be able to backtrace what went wrong... I'm aware this is not too helpful yet, but from the given code it's all the help I can offer you so far... View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4270136#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...