The method startUpJBPM() is totally unnecessary, since the processEngine and services should have been built by SpringConfiguration bean. To deploy your process, you could get the repositoryService from spring context: | RepositoryService repositoryService = ac.getBean("repositoryService"); | repositoryService.createDeployment().addResourceFromClasspath("jpdl/process.jpdl.xml").deploy(); | View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4248363#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...