org.jbpm.jpdl.internal.xml.JpdlParser is the cental class which does the parsing. And there are binding classes which parse the individual nodes. For example, there is "org.jbpm.jpdl.internal.activity.StartBinding" for parsing start node. You will see the full list in jbpm.jpdl.bindings.xml. Once you generate the xml, you typically should not need to parse it by calling JpdlParser, NewDeployment.deploy() method does it all for you. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4265648#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...