You can also create additional columns in the existing jbpm tables ..so whenever a process and task is updated it will fill these columns with the meta data you want. You might need to declare this columns in your hibernate config and write a custom handler class..I have done this and it works brilliantly.. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4246280#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...