most likely not. If there was no jira issue, things can slip of the radar. Besides that. Can't you do this by implementing an ejb with a 'requires new' for the transaction and call that from the actionhandler? Or even do something with a spring bean? I personally think (but the developers may think otherwise) that the jBPM processdefinition should not be the place to do this View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4040744#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...