diff --git a/modules/activiti-engine/src/main/java/org/activiti/engine/impl/pvm/runtime/AtomicOperationActivityEnd.java b/modules/activiti-engine/src/main/java/org/activiti/engine/impl/pvm/runtime/AtomicOperationActivityEnd.java
index aa4cc3108430ba567a94b5f853dc426235e044a1..15a8405be3f4ce28887254697f25f423cf61bef2 100644
--- a/modules/activiti-engine/src/main/java/org/activiti/engine/impl/pvm/runtime/AtomicOperationActivityEnd.java
+++ b/modules/activiti-engine/src/main/java/org/activiti/engine/impl/pvm/runtime/AtomicOperationActivityEnd.java
@@ -74,9 +74,18 @@ public class AtomicOperationActivityEnd extends AbstractEventAtomicOperation {
         // default destroy scope behavior
         InterpretableExecution parentScopeExecution = (InterpretableExecution) execution.getParent();
         execution.destroy();
-        execution.remove();
-        parentScopeExecution.setActivity(parentActivity);
-        parentScopeExecution.performOperation(ACTIVITY_END);
+        execution.remove();        
+        // if we are a scope under the process instance 
+        // and have no outgoing transitions: end the process instance here
+        if(activity.getParent() == activity.getProcessDefinition() 
+                && activity.getOutgoingTransitions().isEmpty()) {
+          parentScopeExecution.setActivity(activity);
+          // we call end() because it sets isEnded on the execution
+          parentScopeExecution.end(); 
+        } else {
+          parentScopeExecution.setActivity(parentActivity);
+          parentScopeExecution.performOperation(ACTIVITY_END);
+        }
       }
 
     } else { // execution.isConcurrent() && !execution.isScope()
diff --git a/modules/activiti-engine/src/test/java/org/activiti/engine/test/bpmn/subprocess/SubProcessTest.java b/modules/activiti-engine/src/test/java/org/activiti/engine/test/bpmn/subprocess/SubProcessTest.java
index 487a26ce0a8044dca62ce32c5c46efe176514028..a61de3cf5431d57730f960ddca7c7836ed42cdf7 100644
--- a/modules/activiti-engine/src/test/java/org/activiti/engine/test/bpmn/subprocess/SubProcessTest.java
+++ b/modules/activiti-engine/src/test/java/org/activiti/engine/test/bpmn/subprocess/SubProcessTest.java
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ public class SubProcessTest extends PluggableActivitiTestCase {
    * @see http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-1072
    */
   @Deployment
-  public void FAILING_testSimpleSubProcessWithoutEndEvent() {
+  public void testSimpleSubProcessWithoutEndEvent() {
     ProcessInstance pi = runtimeService.startProcessInstanceByKey("testSimpleSubProcessWithoutEndEvent");
     assertProcessEnded(pi.getId());
   }
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ public class SubProcessTest extends PluggableActivitiTestCase {
    * @see http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-1072
    */
   @Deployment
-  public void FAILING_testNestedSubProcessesWithoutEndEvents() {
+  public void testNestedSubProcessesWithoutEndEvents() {
     ProcessInstance pi = runtimeService.startProcessInstanceByKey("testNestedSubProcessesWithoutEndEvents");
     assertProcessEnded(pi.getId());
   }
diff --git a/modules/activiti-engine/src/test/java/org/activiti/engine/test/pvm/PvmEmbeddedSubProcessTest.java b/modules/activiti-engine/src/test/java/org/activiti/engine/test/pvm/PvmEmbeddedSubProcessTest.java
index e28148b79455227677e78ce64f172b6068a87a98..912f1c3b909bb3f87230760b25da164d97235ecb 100644
--- a/modules/activiti-engine/src/test/java/org/activiti/engine/test/pvm/PvmEmbeddedSubProcessTest.java
+++ b/modules/activiti-engine/src/test/java/org/activiti/engine/test/pvm/PvmEmbeddedSubProcessTest.java
@@ -249,14 +249,44 @@ public class PvmEmbeddedSubProcessTest extends PvmTestCase {
     assertEquals(expectedActiveActivityIds, processInstance.findActiveActivityIds());
   }
   
+  /** 
+   *           +------------------------------+
+   *           | embedded subprocess          |
+   * +-----+   |  +-----------+               |
+   * |start|-->|  |startInside|               |
+   * +-----+   |  +-----------+               |
+   *           +------------------------------+
+   */
+  public void testEmbeddedSubProcessWithoutEndEvents() {
+    PvmProcessDefinition processDefinition = new ProcessDefinitionBuilder()   
+      .createActivity("start")
+        .initial()
+        .behavior(new Automatic())
+        .transition("embeddedsubprocess")
+      .endActivity()
+      .createActivity("embeddedsubprocess")
+        .scope()
+        .behavior(new EmbeddedSubProcess())
+        .createActivity("startInside")
+          .behavior(new Automatic())
+        .endActivity()       
+      .endActivity()      
+    .buildProcessDefinition();
+    
+    PvmProcessInstance processInstance = processDefinition.createProcessInstance(); 
+    processInstance.start();
+    
+    assertTrue(processInstance.isEnded());
+  }
+  
   /** 
    *           +-------------------------------------------------------+
    *           | embedded subprocess                                   |
    *           |                  +--------------------------------+   |
    *           |                  | nested embedded subprocess     |   |
-   * +-----+   | +-----------+    |  +-----------+                 |   |   +---+
-   * |start|-->| |startInside|--> |  |startInside|                 |   |-->|end|
-   * +-----+   | +-----------+    |  +-----------+                 |   |   +---+
+   * +-----+   | +-----------+    |  +-----------+                 |   |
+   * |start|-->| |startInside|--> |  |startInside|                 |   |
+   * +-----+   | +-----------+    |  +-----------+                 |   |
    *           |                  +--------------------------------+   |
    *           |                                                       |
    *           +-------------------------------------------------------+
@@ -282,20 +312,48 @@ public class PvmEmbeddedSubProcessTest extends PvmTestCase {
             .behavior(new Automatic())            
             .endActivity()        
         .endActivity()
-      .transition("end")
-      .endActivity()
-      .createActivity("end")
-        .behavior(new WaitState())
+      .endActivity()  
+    .buildProcessDefinition();
+    
+    PvmProcessInstance processInstance = processDefinition.createProcessInstance(); 
+    processInstance.start();
+    
+    assertTrue(processInstance.isEnded());
+  }
+  
+  
+  /** 
+   *           +------------------------------+
+   *           | embedded subprocess          |
+   * +-----+   |  +-----------+   +---------+ |
+   * |start|-->|  |startInside|-->|endInside| |
+   * +-----+   |  +-----------+   +---------+ |
+   *           +------------------------------+
+   */
+  public void testEmbeddedSubProcessNoEnd() {
+    PvmProcessDefinition processDefinition = new ProcessDefinitionBuilder()   
+      .createActivity("start")
+        .initial()
+        .behavior(new Automatic())
+        .transition("embeddedsubprocess")
       .endActivity()
+      .createActivity("embeddedsubprocess")
+        .scope()
+        .behavior(new EmbeddedSubProcess())
+        .createActivity("startInside")
+          .behavior(new Automatic())
+          .transition("endInside")
+        .endActivity()
+        .createActivity("endInside")
+          .behavior(new End())
+        .endActivity()
+      .endActivity()      
     .buildProcessDefinition();
     
     PvmProcessInstance processInstance = processDefinition.createProcessInstance(); 
     processInstance.start();
     
-    List<String> expectedActiveActivityIds = new ArrayList<String>();
-    expectedActiveActivityIds.add("end");
-      
-    assertEquals(expectedActiveActivityIds, processInstance.findActiveActivityIds());
+    assertTrue(processInstance.isEnded());
   }
     
 }