The reason is that jBPM is also able to run outside of an app server, e.g. in Tomcat or in a rich client application. But to do interesting things wrt task management and task assignment, you need an identity component. So we provided a default system that is *very* easily changeable by any system provided by some 'big vendor' :-)) The only thing you have to do to implement this is provide your own implementation of a configurable assignment handler. Regards, Koen View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3958173#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...