I have been researching the topic of Undoing or Rolling Back also. This seems to be an area of concern for many. I am still investigating this and would like to know how others are handling this. I believe one reason that we are having difficulty finding information about this subject is our terminology. You might try searching for BPEL and the following terms: Compensation Long Running Transactions Here is one article that I found that talked about Compensation. http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=BPELJava&News0... -Steve View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3964424#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...