I am working on using Drools to manage authorization. I don't want to use the jBPM objects in my rules, so I created some simple wrapper objects. [just because I want to abstract from the Drools internals].

Here is what I do:

create a new process instance.
kick start the process (signal it).

as soon as the first TaskNode is encountered (started:
 - assert all my relevant business objects
 - assert a BpmSwimlane(name,actorId) for all SwimlaneInstances that exist at that moment
 - assert a PooledBpmActor(swimlaneName,pooledActorId) for all the existing PooledActors from every existing SwimlaneInstance
 - fire the rules
 - retrieve all PooledBpmActors

then I iterate again through the existing SwimlaneInstances and assign it a new PooledActors set: a set of "new PooledActor(pooledActorId,swimlaneInstance,null)"

The thing is, when I then try to retrieve findPooledTaskInstances(actorId), I get an empty list.

Is there something I am missing?

Looking into the database, I find my swimlane instance and in the corresponding pooledactors table there is my actorid.

thanks,
willem