I tried to setup a sample standalone "hello" application that attempts to run a process involving human tasks. 

Main components were:

- mina  task  server (as documentation hinted, based on a sample),

- standalone "hello sort of" application running a ruleflow with some workitems including a human task too,

- eclipse human task view.

I setup the persistence - following the documentation, asked for a jta datasource and used bitronix transaction manager.

The application:

- begins a new user transaction

- creates a new process instance in a stateful session

- calls fireallrules

- waits on the console with System.in.read() (this was already a workaround to avoid completing the user transaction before the human task is handled in the HT view, this otherwise caused a nullpointer assigment at line 83 in JPAWorkItemManager which tried to refer to variable "em" which when set returned null for the following assignment if  usertransaction were committed: 

... following the above the message reaches the human task server, and then the task appears in the human task view - so far so good.

Then when the task is started and completed in the view, the "GetCompletedTaskResponseHandler.execute()" begins handling the completed message. Unfortunately this call fails with :

" no transaction started on this thread"

I have then checked the threads in the debug view and looked like the message response is actually running in the "NioProcessor" thread. At this point I got stuck.  If there is some guideance on  how to correctly setup transaction management and Mina task client/human task work item handler it would be very much appreciated.

thank you.