No, there is not transition *named* join, there only is a transition *to* join. And take() without any param should also work. It takes the default one if there is only one (duh.. ;-)) You do not need a sleep at all since the join should only continue if *all* incoming transitions are triggered. I think you misunderstood Joram (or he misunderstood you) Can you make a unitest with everything embedded like in http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=158424 so the actionhandlers are inner classes etc... Just start, fork, two custom nodes (async) , one join and one end. Lets first get that working (and include it as an example eventually in jBPM. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4254880#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...