I'm currently experimenting with including a Timer node within a rule flow.

My question is: what (if any) runtime state information is persisted by Drools Flow for a Timer node? I can recreate a session via a call to JPAKnowledgeService.loadStatefulKnowledgeSession, but if a process instance was previously on a Timer node, will it start from where it left off, or will the Timer delay start from the beginning again? For example, if I have a Timer node with a delay of 7 days, but the application is stopped / crashes after 6 days, then when I recreate my session, will the Timer node just wait 1 more day, or will the delay of 7 days start from scratch?

Thanks in advance for any help,

Alan