Guido Helmers [http://community.jboss.org/people/helmers] replied to the discussion "Injected hibernate SessionFactory is not used by jBPM 4.3?" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/537176#537176 -------------------------------------------------------------- As sketched in my story above, jBPM *stores* the SessionFactory in the *"process-engine" WireContext* (see ConfigurationImpl), but *looks it up* in the *"transaction" WireContext*. In my simple view of life, that explains why it doesn't work. So I've overridden the ConfigurationImpl.setHibernateTransactionFactory() to store the descriptor *also* in the "transaction" WireContext, like this: ProcessEngine processEngine = new ConfigurationImpl() {      @Override      public ConfigurationImpl setHibernateSessionFactory(Object hibernateSessionFactory) {           ProvidedObjectDescriptor descriptor = new ProvidedObjectDescriptor(hibernateSessionFactory, true);           getProcessEngineWireContext().getWireDefinition().addDescriptor(descriptor);           getTransactionWireDefinition().addDescriptor(descriptor);           return this;      } }.setResource("jbpm/jbpm.cfg.xml").setHibernateSessionFactory(hibernateSessionFactory).buildProcessEngine(); Now jBPM does use my injected SessionFactory (verified by doing the same debug session as described above; it's now obtaining the injected object wherever it's looking up a SessionFactory). I'm not very familiar with the different jBPM WireContexts, so I hope a jBPM expert can take a look at my 'workaround', and say some smart stuff about whether this is can be considered a bug in the standard ConfigurationImpl, or whether I'm doing something dangerous here with nasty side-effects... Thanks for your help, Guido ps: The problem described here: https://community.jboss.org/thread/150582 https://community.jboss.org/thread/150582 remains. I now have one SessionFactory, but it's still not possible to run my own stuff and jBPM stuff in one single transaction. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/537176#537176] Start a new discussion in jBPM at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]