Look at 'Chapter 5.4 Web application' of the user guide http://docs.jboss.com/jbpm/v3.2/userguide/html/deployment.html#webapplica... the web app starts the JobExecutor Ronald is referring to. I'm wondering about this: jbpmConfiguration.createSchema(); | ProcessDefinition processDefinition=ProcessDefinition.parseXmlResource("demandeAccesVerifUserAlerteRH/processdefinition.xml"); You said you have your db schema already set up and have also deployed your process. Why are you calling createSchema() in your action again and why are you trying to get the processdefinition from the xml file instead of from the db? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4064879#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...