Ed, my yesterday's fix (or hack) does work so far, concerning job acquirement. I think all the hibernate sync doesnt work with multiple threads in one process instance. I wish someone from jboss would say a word, but I guess they're either tired of repeating "it's a business process tool, not a thread scheduler" or it's just the usual no time/no desire/whatever.... threads and their hibernate sessions are not sync'd between each other, but I dont know if thats just incorrect use, wrong configuration or bugs. I need this thing get to work soon without spending days on it, otherwise I will need to look for something different that works out of the box (which probably doenst exist)... A. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4049731#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...