the pattern is to use the business key and retrieve process instances based on that. Store domain data in your domain model and select from there which process instance to retrieve. People still tend to put to much data in the process as well as use the identity module to broadly. I never used the identity module... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4199368#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...