for now we're gonna recursively look for the deepest sub-process instance and signal that (or the parent process instance if there are no sub-processes). public void signalDeepest(ProcessInstance processInstance) { ProcessInstance subProcess = processInstance.getRootToken().getSubProcessInstance(); if(subProcess == null) { processInstance.signal(); } else { signalDeepest(subProcess); } } does this seem like the right way? thanks very much for any comments. david f. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4089124#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...