No, this is not correct. The documentation states: 'indicates if an asynchronous continuation should be performed before the element is executed.' If you try the async activity example in the distribution, you can modify the test case (ie remove the job execution through the mgt service) and you'll see that the activity never gets executed. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4243181#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...