anonymous wrote : How does JBPM/Hibernate actually decide when to query the database? JbpmContext flush all the data to the database when close method is called.. this is when the process reach a wait state.. when the process is running all the changes are made in "memory".. so if you want to flush some change to the database in some particular moment you need to call the close method... I hope it helps.. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4158043#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...