lazy fetched relations are indeed not exposed in the objects that are returned from the service methods. this is to prevent lazy initialization exceptions. but commands are not the solution. adding a findProcessInstanceByTask(long taskDbid) on the TaskService is the way to go. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4239273#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...