The process definition is not persisted probably because you forget to close the JbpmContext when deploying. Closing the context will perform a commit on the database. So in a realistic example you need to open a JbpmContext, deploy and close. Afterwards you create another JbpmContext to retrieve the process instances (and close this one). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3962133#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...