anonymous wrote : Oops - please ignore my earlier message - I didn't read carefully. I mean the manual of course, so I will answer here to my questions maybe somebody will find it useful, but I do not believe so :) 1. In the JBPM manual stands: anonymous wrote : Start state: supported event types: {node-leave} So, there is no miracle, why I could not invoke my action on "node-enter" event :) 2. The second question related how to start process instance in generic way and to cover the situations, when your start-state is either Task-node or some wait state, can be solved with additional method in JBPMTemplate (I am using springmodules-0.7) /** | * Create and start process instance | * | * @author agaton | * @param definitionId. | * The definitionId to be started. | * @return ProcessInstance that is created | */ | public ProcessInstance createStartProcessInstance(final long definitionId) { | return (ProcessInstance)execute(new JbpmCallback() { | public Object doInJbpm(JbpmContext context) { | ProcessInstance processInstance = null; | ProcessDefinition processDef = context.getGraphSession() | .getProcessDefinition(definitionId); | if(processDef != null) { | processInstance = (ProcessInstance)processDef.createInstance(); | if(processInstance != null) { | if(processInstance.getTaskMgmtInstance() | .getTaskMgmtDefinition().getStartTask()!=null){ | processInstance.getTaskMgmtInstance() | .createStartTaskInstance(); | } | else{ | processInstance.getRootToken().signal(); | } | context.save(processInstance); | } | } | return processInstance; | } | }); | } So, if start-state has task (startTask!=null) createStartTaskInstance() is invoked. If opposite, rootToken is signaled. Thank you for ignoring my questions, apart for Mr Staub, whom I am thankful as a polite and nice person, since it helped me to realize how stupid my question was. Cheers Milan View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4012099#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...