I tried following these steps to install jbpm3.1.2 to tomcat 5.5.17. It fails for me when I try to create database. Here is the error - [loadidentities] 16:30:32,474 [main] DEBUG DbPersistenceService : beginning hibe rnate transaction [loadidentities] 16:30:33,376 [main] WARN JDBCExceptionReporter : SQL Error: -8 0, SQLState: 08000 [loadidentities] 16:30:33,376 [main] ERROR JDBCExceptionReporter : socket creati on error [loadidentities] 16:30:33,376 [main] DEBUG JbpmContext : closing JbpmContext [loadidentities] 16:30:33,376 [main] DEBUG Services : closing service 'persisten ce': org.jbpm.persistence.db.DbPersistenceService@ae1cf [loadidentities] 16:30:33,376 [main] DEBUG DbPersistenceService : flushing hiber nate session [loadidentities] 16:30:33,376 [main] DEBUG DbPersistenceService : closing hibern ate session BUILD FAILED D:\Java\jbpm-starters-kit-3.1.2\jbpm\build.deploy.xml:50: org.hibernate.exceptio n.JDBCConnectionException: Cannot open connection I appreciate if anyone can help me here. Thank you. - Meghana --------------------------------------------------------------------- "diwa_pv" wrote : hi, | | Even i faced the same problem while deploying the 3.1 version of jbpm on tomcat! but finally made it on tomcat. | | My tomcat version was 5.x and used Oracle 9i as backend! | | | | Here are the steps i followed to deploy 3.1 version of jbpm on tomcat. | | | | Download jbpm-starters-kit-3.1.1 from Jboss site | | | Deploy jbpm-starters-kit-3.1.1\jbpm-server\server\jbpm\deploy\jbpm.war into tomcat webapps. | | | Copy hibernate.cfg.xml from jbpm-starters-kit-3.1.1\jbpm\src\config.files to ur <jbpm-home>/WEB-INF/classes/ | | | Run ant task for creating database tables and data from jbpm-starters-kit-3.1.1\jbpm\build.deploy.xml | ( ant create.db ?buildfile build.deploy.xml) | | | Add few jars to lib folder of your application. | | | Start tomcat. | | | Start jbpm application. | | | | | thanks and regards | diwa | | | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3989877#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...