As for the other part of your question regarding retrieving created processInstances, you can configure the same way the test cases are doing this, that will give you the environment and processengine, but also then simply use the ExecutionService methods ProcessInstance findProcessInstanceById(String processInstanceId); All you need to do is give the id of the processInstance that you want to load up. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4238655#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...