the JMX bean as it was is not used anymore since it made jBPM somewhat JBoss AS dependant. You can easily circumvent this, but the docs also would not be generic. Besides that, you could not package actionhandler classes is your own war/ear then, but only server generic or in the processarchive. These were the reasons to abandon the MBean View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4153009#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...