Felix Jose [http://community.jboss.org/people/FelixKJose] created the discussion "failed to lazily initialize a collection of role: org.jbpm.pvm.internal.model.ExecutionImpl.variables, no session or session was closed" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/551883#551883 -------------------------------------------------------------- Hi All, I am using JBPM with Spring and Hibernate. I am getting the following exception while getting the variables using executionImpl and is as follows: org.hibernate.LazyInitializationException: failed to lazily initialize a collection of role: org.jbpm.pvm.internal.model.ExecutionImpl.variables, no session or session was closed org.hibernate.collection.AbstractPersistentCollection.throwLazyInitializationException(AbstractPersistentCollection.java:358) org.hibernate.collection.AbstractPersistentCollection.throwLazyInitializationExceptionIfNotConnected(AbstractPersistentCollection.java:350) org.hibernate.collection.AbstractPersistentCollection.initialize(AbstractPersistentCollection.java:343) org.hibernate.collection.AbstractPersistentCollection.read(AbstractPersistentCollection.java:86) org.hibernate.collection.PersistentMap.entrySet(PersistentMap.java:242) org.jbpm.pvm.internal.model.ScopeInstanceImpl.getVariables(ScopeInstanceImpl.java:237) com.jpmc.speadd.service.impl.SpeaddWorkFlow.StartWorkFlow(SpeaddWorkFlow.java:245) My JBPM-config file snippet: <command-service name=+"txRequiredCommandService">  <retry-interceptor />  <environment-interceptor /> <spring-transaction-interceptor /> </command-service> < transaction-context> <transaction type=+"spring"+/> <repository-session/> <db-session/> <message-session/> <timer-session/> <history-sessions> <object class=+"org.jbpm.pvm.internal.history.HistorySessionImpl"+/> </history-sessions> <!--Need to set explicitly that we don't want jbpm to create sessions --> <hibernate-session current=+"true"+ close=+"false"/+> </transaction-context> Can you please let me know how can i solve the same? Please send a response as soon as possible. With Regards, Felix K Jose + -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/551883#551883] Start a new discussion in jBPM at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]