HuiSheng Xu [http://community.jboss.org/people/rebody] replied to the discussion "Questions about transactions in jBPM 4.3" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/547952#547952 -------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Rachel, What do you mean when you say that "the JobExecutor will start  individual transactions to handle these jobs"? Does a separate  transaction mean that the information will be stored in a separate  location? JobExecutor may have more than a thread to handle the waiting jobs.  By default, each of thread could handle one job.  Each of them will execute in a separate transaction. The information of jobs are stored in the JBPM4_JOB table.  When one of them was picked by jobExecutor,  JobExecutor will lock it and try to execute it in a transaction.  If Jobexecutor can successly complete this job, it will delete the related job information from database, and try to pick another job.  If these were some exceptions occurs, JobExecutor will store the exception information and try to execute the job again. Yes.  If you use fork to create multiply path of async executions,  then you cannot tell whick execution will be executed first,  which one will be executed second. But as you said that your process definition is sequence,  there is no parallal paths.  So when process arrivalled activity A,  it will create a async job and return.  At that moment, there was only one job for activity A.  Until Jobexecutor finished this job, the process will not arrivalled other activities, so there will be no more jobs be created.  When jobExecutor finished the job of activity A,  then process will continue, and arrivalled activity B then return.  The job of activity B will be created and waited jobExecutor to execute.  So I needn't worry about the order of sequence process. Hope this will be some help. :) -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/547952#547952] Start a new discussion in jBPM at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]