i found part of the problem : JBPM XML files were not mapped in the hibernate.cfg.xml file . when i mapped them all i got this error : | | 2008-01-02 17:55:14,468 INFO [STDOUT] 17:55:14,452 ERROR [[/Total-e]] StandardWrapper.Throwable | java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/hql/antlr/HqlBaseParser | at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) | at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:620) | at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124) | at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:1812) | at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:866) | at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1319) | at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1198) | at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319) | at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.parse(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:241) | at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.doCompile(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:156) | at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.compile(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:110) | at org.hibernate.engine.query.HQLQueryPlan.<init>(HQLQueryPlan.java:77) | at org.hibernate.engine.query.HQLQueryPlan.<init>(HQLQueryPlan.java:56) | at org.hibernate.engine.query.QueryPlanCache.getHQLQueryPlan(QueryPlanCache.java:71) | at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.checkNamedQueries(SessionFactoryImpl.java:397) | at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:348) | at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1213) | i read that somehow it is connected to the line in the config file , but i don't see why, since it seems it reads from this mapping : | 2008-01-02 17:55:02,499 DEBUG [org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration] null<-org.dom4j.tree.DefaultAttribute@99146a [Attribute: name resource value "org/jbpm/db/hibernate.queries.hbm.xml"] | 2008-01-02 17:55:02,499 INFO [org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration] Reading mappings from resource: org/jbpm/db/hibernate.queries.hbm.xml | 2008-01-02 17:55:02,499 DEBUG [org.hibernate.util.DTDEntityResolver] trying to resolve system-id [http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd] | 2008-01-02 17:55:02,499 DEBUG [org.hibernate.util.DTDEntityResolver] recognized hibernate namespace; attempting to resolve on classpath under org/hibernate/ | 2008-01-02 17:55:02,499 DEBUG [org.hibernate.util.DTDEntityResolver] located [http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd] in classpath | 2008-01-02 17:55:02,531 DEBUG [org.hibernate.cfg.Mappings] Added string_max with class org.jbpm.db.hibernate.StringMax | 2008-01-02 17:55:02,531 DEBUG [org.hibernate.cfg.HbmBinder] Named query: GraphSession.findLatestProcessDefinitionQuery -> | | select pd | from org.jbpm.graph.def.ProcessDefinition as pd | where pd.name = :name | order by pd.version desc | | | 2008-01-02 17:55:02,531 DEBUG [org.hibernate.cfg.HbmBinder] Named query: GraphSession.findProcessDefinitionByNameAndVersion -> | | select pd | from org.jbpm.graph.def.ProcessDefinition as pd | where pd.name = :name | and pd.version = :version | | | 2008-01-02 17:55:02,531 DEBUG [org.hibernate.cfg.HbmBinder] Named query: | so what is the problem ? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4116452#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...