anonymous wrote : You know, I nearly gave up using Seam because of this issue, trying to re-implement the process in "pure" jBPM. But if it is a jBPM's issue, are you saying that Timers cannot be used with States? No, the problem is when jBPM is not the transactionmanager (afaik). It is already fixed in the svn trunk of jBPM (again, afaik, not tested it myself) Pure jBPM should work, or even in combination with Seam. Just configure jBPM to not participate in an already running transaction View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4170188#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...