Hello, processInstance.suspend() ,as name suggest, will only suspend the process instance and all its task instances as well i.e isSuspended will gets populated in database. processinstance.end() will cancel the process instance as well as all open task instance associated with the process instance. isCanceled gets populated in database for both processinstance and taskinstance. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4118189#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...