So first off, sorry for the delay...very busy with work stuff. Second, I'm not sure what you mean when you ask about using the identitySession to commit transactions. I call IdentitySession methods, that's it. Hibernate takes care of all that stuff in the background. I responded to the thread you referenced, but my response isn't much help right now. Ok, here is what I did for deleting Users. I added a method called deleteUserByName(String ) to the IdentitySession class, which is as follows: public void deleteUserByName(String userName) { | User user = getUserByName(userName); | session.delete(user); | } And here is the method I have in a class of mine where I call this: public void deleteUser(String userName) | { | JbpmContext jbpmContext = _jbpmConfig.createJbpmContext(); | try | { | IdentitySession idSession = new IdentitySession(jbpmContext.getSession()); | idSession.deleteUserByName(userName); | } | finally | { | jbpmContext.close(); | } | } As for the cascade changes, give me a bit to do a diff, and then I'll post that information as well. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3958656#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...