My thoughts exactly, except that without the dba role I get this error when launching a process instance: | 14:31:22,644 ERROR JDBCExceptionReporter : ORA-00942: table or view does not exist | | 14:31:22,659 ERROR ProcessCommand : WORKFLOW_JBPM_LAUNCH_PROCESS couldn't assign id to org.jbpm.graph.exe.ProcessInstance@d2efa1 | I get other assorted database errors when attempting other operations, e.g. deploying a definition: | 14:35:32,191 ERROR ProcessCommand : Unable to deploy process definition Process definition "Sample Workflow" deployment | failed - could not get next sequence value | If I grant dba to the role I have assigned to the login user id, everything is happy again. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3963882#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...