FYI guys, in the meantime I have a workaround of using ctx.getJbpmContext().save(ctx.getProcessInstance())in my action - before sending a message; all this works only because of @TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.NOT_SUPPORTED) on MDB, so every save() also commits. I am not sure whether this might be a solution for everyone (I am sure it wouldn't), so it'd be nice if a call to loadProcessInstance() would not return until the instance is in some steady state. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4064331#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...