I'm confused about what you want. I think you might just want to start up JBPM when Seam starts, and then deploy your process definitions some other way? If so, look at the way org.jboss.seam.core.Jbpm.startup works, and extend the class, and overriding the startup method so it starts up without any process definitions being present. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4034160#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...