HowTo remove a ProcessInstance Q

[fmuhlenberg]

Running within jBoss, I have a process instance that has ended normally. When I search for current process instances, I find my terminated process being listed -- hasEnded() returns true.

Now, I want to remove that instance from the DB tables but find that exceptions are generated when create a transaction -or- nothing happens when I don't use transactions.

So, what is the accepted (prefered) method to remove a process instance?

[brittm]

JbpmSessionFactory jbpmSessionFactory = JbpmSessionFactory.getInstance();
 JbpmSession jbpmSession = jbpmSessionFactory.openJbpmSession();
 GraphSession graphSession = jbpmSession.getGraphSession();

 jbpmSession.beginTransaction();
 graphSession.deleteProcessInstance(processInstanceId);
 jbpmSession.commitTransaction();
 jbpmSession.close();

Simple enough; however, in certain scenarios there are still (I believe) one or two persistance issues that can creep up that may prevent the record deletion from ocurring successfully.

-Britt