Ok, I finally got setup to use git and look at the latest drools code. In that repository, the code for CommandFactory.newStartProcess looks like this:

    public static Command newStartProcess(String processId,

                                          Map<String, Object> parameters) {

        return getCommandFactoryProvider().newStartProcess( processId );

    }

Apparently, there’s some discrepancy from the ‘master’ repository you’re looking at and the repository at github. I’m looking at:

    droolsjbpm-knowledge/knowledge-api/src/main/java/org/drools/command/CommandFactory lines 254-257

Dan