I was searching for a way to return a task to the pooled tasks (ie. unassign it). This works for me and others may find it useful: | jbpmContext.getTaskMgmtSession().loadTaskInstance(taskId).setActorId(null); | where taskId is the id (type long) passed into the method via a request parameter. Would be handy if you could call setActor on the taskInstance returned from the taskInstanceList but it returns org.jbpm.taskmgmt.exe.TaskInstance which as it isn't a Seam component, can't be called from EL. Would be super-handy if you could just call task.unassign() View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4068153#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...