Your Hibernate session is closed ... it is a Spring configuration pb, not a JBPM problem ... In your spring_applicationcontext, you need to declare a Transactionnal service. The transactionnal service is there to do the hibernate proxy and give transactions when needed. Your object (for exemple facadeService here) where your code is written on use the transactionnal Service to get Hibernate Transaction Then every methode written in your object will use a Hibernate transaction and then the hibernate session .... | <bean id="transactionalService" | class="org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionProxyFactoryBean" | abstract="true"> | <property name="transactionManager"> | <ref bean="transactionManager" /> | </property> | <property name="transactionAttributes"> | <props> | <prop key="*">PROPAGATION_REQUIRED</prop> | </props> | </property> | </bean> | | <bean id="facadeService" parent="transactionalService"> | <property name="target"> | <bean | class="ocd.common.workflow.facade.FacadeOCD"> | <property name="jbpmConfiguration"> | <ref bean="jbpmConfiguration" /> | </property> | </bean> | </property> | </bean> | | Olivier View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4103239#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...