Where are you storing the information that a task belongs to a particular state? You can always use Hibernate to query any table in any manner for the jbpm tables. There is of course the TaskQuery interface, but you can take a similar approach if you like that(maybe extend the interface? it's something I was starting to work on the other day. following the same approach as jbpm internally does), or write up a DAO just for your Task Queries, View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4249263#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...