Show information for BPM process instances to possible future assignees

Hi all,
My environment is 11.1.1.4.
I want to develop an ADF application that shows users information for BPM process instances which will possibly produce a user task assigned to them in the future.
What I have done is
1. Get BPMAppRole from the user name.
2. Get the list of CompositeInstance with STATE_RUNNING from the BPM process name obtained from the BPMAppRole.getName().
From the list of CompositeInstance, I have to extract the instances that will possibly produce a user task assigned to the user in the future.
But I have no idea how to do this.
Maybe my current approach is totally incorrect.
Please help!
Regards,
Kenji

Hi,
By chance I found a method that you can use:
oracle.bpel.services.workflow.query.model.TaskSequence getTaskSequence(oracle.bpel.services.workflow.verification.IWorkflowContext p1, oracle.bpel.services.workflow.task.model.Task p2, java.util.List p3, java.util.List p4, java.util.List p5, boolean p6) { }
getTaskSequence might help you. This is under ITaskQueryService interface.
HTH.

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