Chris Toomey [http://community.jboss.org/people/cntoomey] replied to the discussion "Multi-threaded process execution?" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/550899#550899 -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks HuiSheng, ya I'd seen that but it looked pretty complicated and heavyweight, particularly triggering DB write and transactions for each such asynch node.  In the fully in-process web-request-processing application I'm looking at I want to avoid transactions altogether.  Looks like either I couldcreate and use my own lighter-weight MessageService implementation instead, or else do it another way e.g. w/ custom Fork and Join node implementations. Chris -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/550899#550899] Start a new discussion in jBPM at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]