The process deployment feature of Seam is a development tool. When you are to a stable point in your development, you should remove the jbpm process definition from your components.xml and use the jbpm tools to manage process deployment. You can also build process management into your application - take a look at the way the dvd store lets you change process definitions. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3998085#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...