[rules-users] Blocking Call to startProcess()

Hi there, I just began exploring the capabilities of drools and also considered its applicability for typical EAI scenarios. It really may be a beginner's question. But I took the simple example workflow and inserted a Thread.sleep() for its task action. I experienced the blocking startProcess() as discussed here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1326718/how-to-start-multiple-processes -in-drools-flow So did I miss something or how would it be possible to get the internal ID of the WF instance right after starting it before its completion to be able to query the engine proactively during runtime? I also see that this relates to http://www.mail-archive.com/rules-users@lists.jboss.org/msg05828.html, but I also don't see a solution here. Thanks and Best Markus