you signal the tokens.... it does not matter they are in the DB. jBPM is workflow, so state oriented (persisted in DB), it is not a 'threading machine'. It's like asking how do I wake someone up.... by poking your finger somewhere... :-).... no just kidding. A token in a state that was signalled and faild will go back to that state (unless you progtamm otherwise) you have to retrigger them again.... the documention has info on this. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4005926#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...