Excellent guide! I can only add that, if you don't want automatic database schema creation (as is most often the case in a production environment) you should remove this line from your hibernate.properties: hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto=update Instead, execute the following commands after you deploy jbpm-bpel.sar: cd JBPM_HOME/doc/examples | ant create-schema Enjoy! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3963886#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...