"mmusaji" wrote : I don't mind being a guinea pig. I hope this helps other people who have the same issue. | Not only others, also us (creating awareness) "mmusaji" wrote : | Most of what you guys are saying is going over my head, however I think if the teardown waited for the process to finish this would resolve this problem quite quickly. | Then you at least got my main point ;-) "mmusaji" wrote : | If I wanted to do this and override the tear down method in my Junit can you please post an example of how I would go about this? Would be a large amount of code involving checking the db or is there "isAlive()" method somewhere? The source of the AbstractDBTestcase is the basis. But just before deleting it, retrieve the processinstance based on the id, if this succeeds,, sleep, then retrieve it again based on the processInstance id. If this returns null, it is ended and you can delete it View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4251593#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...