you don't *have* to deploy the definition from the designer, you can also use the jbpm api and retrieve the jpdl file from e.g. your war and use a startup servlet to deploy it and have some checks around that to see if it is not already deployed. This all is totally independent of your webproject structure, frameworks or anything. Same is true for jBPM 4 btw. Integration on e.g. signalling a process/task can be done e.g. from jsf beans. Not really difficult. Just do like is done in lots of testcases. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4253084#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...