I am noticing that after the insert of the job by the main thread, the sql is issued but there is no flush from hibernate or subsequent commit. When the JobExecutorThread fires it loads the job, presumably from the second-level cache. When it updates the job and attempts to commit its transaction, I am assuming it is blocked from doing so by the main thread. In fact, the main thread only issues one commit when the process definition is inserted into the database at startup. Is there a way to cause jBPM to flush and commit transactions more frequently, like with every transition? How about after the creation of a job? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4181713#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...