I think we are confused here somewhere. When we are creating a business process, we will have multiple instances of a particular process running in different stages. In which a lot of different tasks will be pending on different users When you want to see tasks assigned to a particular swimlane/user, we must use swimlane.getTasks() And, if we want to see the total number of tasks created/pending in a particular process instance then we use getTaskMgmtInstance().getUnfinishedTasks(token) hope it helps.. cheers! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3970989#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...