no, it is in use, only not easily pluggable. jBPM requires (for its internal workings) a certain user/role/group model. External systems have to at least provide that model, so service wrappers, how map/wrap the existing model the customer already has to a model required by jBPM. This model is btw fairly similar to the model used by the portal and one of the todo items is to align those two. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4021803#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...