I used the code in searchInstances() in MonitoringBean provided with the 3.1.2 webapp and bastardized it for my requirements. I also added an index for the name_ and longvalue_ column, which is what I am using in my where clause. My reason for not takng a similar approach to dslevine is that I need JBPM to be as losely coupled from the client application as possible. All access to jBPM is via a Stateless Session Bean without the frontend application knowing to much about the internal workings of the JBPM. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4001772#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...