Oh... could this be because this task is in my start-state? If that is the case, then how can I tell that, and find out which "node" in the process the task is for? I see that the Task has a member "startState" which is also null at this time... so that doesn't really help me. To answer the question from Ronald, i'm using hypersonic DB. So I don't know how to check that. Is there a JDBC driver I can use to talk to that DB (say from eclipse)? Thanks, -Jon View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4046271#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...