Most probably you're right, saraswati.santanu. I was in the strong belief it would still be possible although jBPM stores the XML-string in the database. I haven't checked the sources like you have done. So thanks for getting this right. Maybe a solution for Mike is to use some XML lib to create a XML definition and then deploy an XML string. question to the dev's: Are there reasons speaking against shipping such an API with jBPM or is this just a feature which could be implemented but has not been implemented? View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4264739#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...