I do see how the cleanest way to do is is to replace the jbpm jboss service with one that publishes processEngine that is embedded in my spring context. This does tie me to JBoss which is not so bad. I also see a hack, which really doesn't seem so bad either. It basically involves short-circuiting your workflow engine neutral abstractions. It might even be worth it to incorporate these changes into the main code. Let me know what you think: I will simply create a jar file of everything in this module gwt-console/server/server-core to avoid mucking with the code. I'll make a subclass for all the rest facades that simply add a setter for the ProcessEnginePlugin. This way I can inject that directly from the spring context. It would be nice to add that to the actual classes. Then the only other thing that needs to be addressed are the classes in integration/console/src/main/java/org/jbpm/integration/console: TaskManagementImpl, ProcessEnginePluginImpl.java, etc.. The all extend from JBPMIntegration which gets the process engine from jndi: ProcessEngine)ctx.lookup("java:/ProcessEngine"); All I need to do then is to subclass each of these and replace the constructor with one that gets the process engine from the spring context. The nice thing is that these classes are all packaged as part of jbpm-console-integration.jar. Both the Facades and the JBPMIntegration integration classes will live on the spring framework. I'm not sute about the plugin stuff, but this will get me a free rpc layer for my app. I'll burn that bridge when I come to it. Now as far as I can tell, to simplify this integration all thats' needed is: All of the facades in server-core org.jboss.bpm.console.server need a public setter for ProcessEnginePlugin. A maven task goal needs to be added to the pom file that will create a jar file for server-core. Add a constructor to all the classes descending from JBPMIntegration that accepts a process engine. You know the code well, if you have time let me know if I've missed anything. If you think it is a reasonable idea, I'd be happy to help make the changes. Thanks and regards, Robert View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4247122#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...