You shouldn't create a new ProcessDefinition object by calling ProcessDefinition p = new ProcessDefinition("myprocess"); first. Instead, create it like this: ZipInputStream zipInputStream = new ZipInputStream(new FileInputStream("c:\\myprocess.par")); | ProcessDefinition processDefinition = ProcessDefinition.parseParZipInputStream(zipInputStream); | jbpmContext.deployProcessDefinition(processDefinition); | zipInputStream.close(); Regards, Martin View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4047597#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...