Michael Wohlfart [http://community.jboss.org/people/mwohlf] replied to the discussion "How to handle failed processes/states due to server crashes?" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/555586#555586 -------------------------------------------------------------- that's correct the state of your processes is persisted in the database and preserved between reboots, and that should work weather you use the jBoss Service or not, when you signal jBPM looks up the database for your process instance and wait state... i guess you assume the retry-interceptor is more than it actually is, it's  just a try/catch and checks for StaleStateException, you can configure retries, delay and delay-factor, check the sourcecode I haven't seen it's config options documented somewhere -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/555586#555586] Start a new discussion in jBPM at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]