I to have been wrestling with this for some time now. I commented out the identities references in the Hibernate config (as directed by the documentation) and my app has now developed a problem where the class loader cannot find an AssignmentHandler file that previously worked fine. <swimlane name="Approver"> | <assignment class="xxxx.DecisionMakerAssignmentHandler"> | </assignment> | </swimlane> | | 09:47:07,959 ERROR [Delegation] couldn't load delegation class 'xxxx.DecisionMakerAssignmentHandler' | java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: class 'xxxx.DecisionMakerAssignmentHandler' could not be found by the process classloader | Section 11.11 from the Reference Manual stating "jBPM includes an optional identity component that can be easily replaced by a company's own identity data store" is just not working out like planned. - If you remove it, other things break. MG View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4038815#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...