Please, someone? If I am being stupid, just tell me where I should look...

Ronald, thanks for your help.

I've been trying to follow your suggestion but I have been unable to get some thing to work.

I've added the following test case to the HelloWorld test program in the distro.
Could you tell me what I should do to follow the execution down "path2"?

--steve

public void testProcessWithForkAndJoin() {
 ProcessDefinition processDefinition = ProcessDefinition.parseXmlString(
 "<process-definition>" +
 " <start-state>" +
 " <transition to='phase one' />" +
 " </start-state>" +
 " <state name='phase one'>" +
 " <transition to='fork1' />" +
 " </state>" +
 " <fork name='fork1'>" +
 " <transition name='tr1' to='path1' />" +
 " <transition name='tr2' to='path2' />" +
 " </fork>" +
 " <state name='path1'>" +
 " <transition to='join1' />" +
 " </state>" +
 " <state name='path2'>" +
 " <transition to='join1' />" +
 " </state>" +
 " <join name='join1'>" +
 " <transition to='end' />" +
 " </join>" +
 " <end-state name='end' />" +
 "</process-definition>"
 );

 ProcessInstance processInstance =
 new ProcessInstance(processDefinition);
 Token token = processInstance.getRootToken();
 assertSame(processDefinition.getStartState(), token.getNode());

 token.signal();
 assertSame(processDefinition.getNode("phase one"), token.getNode());

 token.signal();
 assertSame(processDefinition.getNode("fork1"), token.getNode());

 token.signal("tr1");
 assertEquals("path1", token.getNode().getName());

 // correct up to here
 // how do I take path2? Nothing I've tried seems to work

 }

Ah!

Thanks again, Ronald.

I found what I was looking for in the directory java.jbpm.test, in the package:
org.jbpm.jpdl.patterns

Hopefully now I can progress up the learning curve.

--Steve