so I figured out that jbpm-3.1.1.jar has turned on the lazy initialization in all the hibernate configs. In the old jbpm-3.0.4.jar, the lazy initialization was false in most of the hibernate configs. I updated the HBM configs & created my modified version of jbpm-3.1.1.jar & now my DAO can successfully fetch data from the JBPM database. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4000200#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...