probably you have to do a sleep in your unit test to give the custom nodes time to fully finish... Or what would probably be better is to have the classes do a take() in the execute and let the join be the 'wait for all branches to finish' (that is what it is for). The aforementioned sleep is not needed then. And why do you use the continue="exclusive" on the join? View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4254787#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...