Technically yes (to a certain extend), practically no (due to the limitations of this 'certain extend') Shiyeling menthioned them already: Many usecases of using jBPM in different environments. e.g. you cannot start a thread from a normal class in many appservers, you needs startup servlets for this.. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4249671#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...