"cwad0000" wrote : have you created a scheduler and started it? | I just realized that it was not running (in a separate JVM, as per docs) because it was throwing a null pointer exception. So, then I modified the source as explained in http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBPM-315?page=comments. Now I see: 13:45:11,943 [main] DEBUG Scheduler : starting the scheduler | 13:45:11,959 [main] INFO JbpmConfiguration : using jbpm configuration resource 'jbpm.cfg.xml' | 13:45:11,959 [main] DEBUG JbpmConfiguration : loading defaults in jbpm configuration | 13:45:12,381 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'default.jbpm.context' | 13:45:12,381 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'resource.hibernate.cfg.xml' | 13:45:12,381 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'resource.business.calendar' | 13:45:12,381 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'resource.default.modules' | 13:45:12,381 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'resource.converter' | 13:45:12,381 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'resource.action.types' | 13:45:12,381 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'resource.node.types' | 13:45:12,381 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'resource.parsers' | 13:45:12,381 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'resource.varmapping' | 13:45:12,381 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'jbpm.msg.wait.timout' | 13:45:12,381 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'jbpm.byte.block.size' | 13:45:12,381 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'mail.smtp.host' | 13:45:12,396 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'jbpm.task.instance.factory' | 13:45:12,396 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'jbpm.variable.resolver' | 13:45:12,396 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'jbpm.mail.address.resolver' | 13:45:12,396 [main] DEBUG JbpmConfiguration : loading specific configuration... | 13:45:12,412 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'default.jbpm.context' | 13:45:12,412 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'resource.business.calendar' | 13:45:12,412 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'resource.default.modules' | 13:45:12,412 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'resource.converter' | 13:45:12,412 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'resource.action.types' | 13:45:12,412 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'resource.node.types' | 13:45:12,412 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'resource.parsers' | 13:45:12,412 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'resource.varmapping' | 13:45:12,427 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'jbpm.byte.block.size' | 13:45:12,427 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'jbpm.task.instance.factory' | 13:45:12,427 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'jbpm.variable.resolver' | 13:45:12,427 [main] DEBUG ObjectFactoryImpl : adding object info 'jbpm.msg.wait.timout' | 13:45:12,459 [JbpmScheduler] DEBUG JbpmContextInfo : creating jbpm context with service factories '[message, scheduler, logging, persistence, authentication]' | 13:45:12,459 [JbpmScheduler] DEBUG JbpmContext : creating JbpmContext | 13:45:12,459 [JbpmScheduler] DEBUG DbPersistenceServiceFactory : creating persistence service | 13:45:12,459 [JbpmScheduler] DEBUG JbpmContext : closing JbpmContext | Exception in thread "JbpmScheduler" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/Session | at org.jbpm.persistence.db.DbPersistenceServiceFactory.openService(DbPersistenceServiceFactory.java:55) | at org.jbpm.svc.Services.getService(Services.java:136) | at org.jbpm.svc.Services.getPersistenceService(Services.java:175) | at org.jbpm.JbpmContext.getPersistenceService(JbpmContext.java:594) | at org.jbpm.JbpmContext.getSchedulerSession(JbpmContext.java:527) | at org.jbpm.scheduler.impl.SchedulerThread.executeTimers(SchedulerThread.java:103) | at org.jbpm.scheduler.impl.SchedulerThread.run(SchedulerThread.java:70) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3984624#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...