What do you mean by "deletes the instance"? When the process reaches the end state the instance should be terminated. AFAIK variable history is not yet functional. In the jbpm-console and thus in jBPM there is a clear distinction between terminating and deleting process instances. Terminating just ends the execution while deleting ends the execution and deletes all process relevant data so that no trace of the process instance remains in the database. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4265406#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...