in your example the process is never signalled to get out of the start-state. The method signalBusinessProcess is never called. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4007935#4007935 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4007935