Hi Sebastian, Your post has been very helpful as I am in the process of evaluating different WFM solutions and had the same questions and concerns. A lot of those were clarified by your post. I still have one question maybe you can help me understand this... Suppose I have a status field in my entity E mapping to table in schema A and the workflow is describing an approval process (jBPM using schema B). So if I want to update the status field of my entity do I need to use a transaction manager so that both these operations commit to the DB atomically. Since I am using spring I am thinking I can write an aspect that would get me the state and then I could update my entity status field. Are there other ways of doing this? Is this the right way to do it? thnx in advance. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4054585#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...