Since I haven't been working with jbpm 3.x it's hard for me to get what exactly you are trying to achieve. I tried your unit test and I got the message that the execution was not found. I can be wrong but doesn't this create a new process engine? | ExecutionService executionService = | new Configuration().buildProcessEngine().getExecutionService(); | I am really not sure how to retrieve a reference on the process eninge already created in the context of an EventListener but I tried using the following: | ExecutionService executionService = | Configuration.getProcessEngine().getExecutionService(); | The error that the execution was not found did not occur anymore but there was an assertion failure: | 12:24:14,734 SEV | [BaseJbpmTestCase] ASSERTION FAILURE: expected:<TransitionedTo[ByListener]> but was:<TransitionedTo[Manually]> | junit.framework.ComparisonFailure: expected:<TransitionedTo[ByListener]> but was:<TransitionedTo[Manually]> | Hope this helps at least bit. If this does not I'd be eager to know if it's possible and how. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4260928#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...