Well, I was not aware that you were using JPA. You should not be using "hibernate-configuration" in jbpm.cfg.xml file when using SpringConficuration. If you use JPA then you need to mention the mapping locations in persistance.xml of JPA. Whatever you mentioned in your TODO list, of moving things to persistance.xml should do the work for you. And also do not create the session factory bean if you are using JPA. That is only valid for hibernate-spring combination. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4265650#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...