Due transition without unconditional transition

Hi,
I noticed, that it is possible to have a process with an activity, which only have a due transition and no unconditional transition as outgoing transition. I thought, this is not allowed (similar to conditional transitions), since the process instance could stall there. Why is it possible anyway?
Kind regards
Matthias

Dan,
I don't this is a bug. A due transition will always fire when its time is due as opposed to a conditional transition (with no unconditional transition) which will stall the process if the condition is never met as it will be unable to transition away from the current activity. So whilst the process appears stalled, the engine is correctly blocking this instance from transitioning onto the next activity until the configured interval has elapsed (but given enough time it will).
TP

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