Michael Wohlfart [http://community.jboss.org/people/mwohlf] created the discussion "Re: database schema recreation while creating ProcessEngine object" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/562682#562682 -------------------------------------------------------------- you are right, it is not a good idea to rely on hibernate.hbpm2ddl.auto="update" to automatically do the tricky database updates for you see this discussion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/221379/hibernate-hbm2ddl-autoupdate-in... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/221379/hibernate-hbm2ddl-autoupdate-in... there are better tools for database updates: http://www.liquibase.org/ http://www.liquibase.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/562682#562682] Start a new discussion in jBPM at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]