Nice summary of jBPM failure handling from Angry Bill: jBPM 3.x allows you to define exception handlers in .jpdl. You can define exceptions you want to catch and either recover from the exception, or allow the execution to fail. These exception handlers are incomplete in functionality though. In my last blog, I talked about how asynchronous continuations give you the ability to have guaranteed transitions. If you dive into the asynchronous code though, you see that exception handlers are executed within the same transaction as the command service triggering the node execution. What does this mean? What are the consequences of this?