I'm guessing you've done a search for this topic. http://www.jorambarrez.be/blog/2008/08/26/jbpm-job-executor-for-spring/ I'm using JobExecutor but not in Spring framework. Works well other than concurrency issues with the database which I can't get my head around at the moment. I've done exactly what you described, configured it and added the line (albeit with amended timings). View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4251392#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...