ExecutionContext is used to provide context for ActionHandlers. It is best not to think of it as a long-lived object - more as a "face" that JBPM exposes to ActionHandlers and other bits of client code that it calls into. It is at least token-specific - I don't THINK more than one can exist for a given token at one time, but I'm not sure - there might be weird cases (say, when doing a join) where there might be. Does that help? -Ed Staub View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4153717#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...