brittm wrote : | * Enlist jBPM (Hibernate) in the same JTA transaction that was started via JPA. Anyone know how to readily do this? | Maybe I get you wrong, but this is exactly what jbpm can do if you use the JtaDbPersistenceServiceFactory, or where is the problem with that solution? Then Hibernate uses the current JTA-Transaction and everything works as expected in one transaction (even JMS and such stuff, not tied to a database). wkzk wrote : | Ive chosen iBatis or another light persistent API as a persistent / data access framework. | So, I'd like to use jBPM with above oss frameworks, not hibernate. | Motivation would be also very interessting for me. The only real reason I heared till now was politics, that Hibernate is not a standard and JPA has to be used. There is no technical reason behind it, pure politics. But with iBatis you don't have a standard either, where is the value to exchange jbpm persistence mechanism? You coul deven write a integration to persist domain objects as process variables with iBatis instead of Hibernate, why do you care what jbpm itself uses? Cheers Bernd View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4204232#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...