Session Factory is in a static variable in the ScheduleThread class ------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBPM-425 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBPM-425 Project: JBoss jBPM Issue Type: Feature Request Components: Core Engine Affects Versions: jBPM 3.0.1 Environment: All Reporter: Adam Schwabacher Assigned To: Tom Baeyens Our applications needs the ability of running in multiple environments. We do this by passing the Hibernate configuration in at runtime. We also need the abiltiy of shutting down all factories and releasing all resources. I know shutting down the Application Server would do this, but for some of our applications this is not a reasonable request. The problem with the ScheduleThread class is that since the JbpmSessionFactory is a static variable it cannot be unloaded by the VM. I can close all session factories, but since this is a static variable, the factoryt cannot be effectively reloaded. This causes a problem with the database connections. I close the JbpmSessionFactory, but on subsequent launches of this class I cannot access the database because of 'Generic' connection exceptions. I verified that with the abiltiy of dynamically supplying a JbpmSessionFactory at runtime this problem does not exists.