I agree, the second option sounds more logical to me. Doesn't the TaskQuery.candidate() or TaskQuery.assignee() helps you out there? If you feel like something is missing there, you can file a Jira as Ronald mentions. If it's really urgent you can always use a plain Hibernate query (altough I'd rather see it on the right API interface ;-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4248336#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...