Hi, as far as I understand there is a difference in the two code examples. Rogerofyan is changing a running execution by adding additional steps. The process definition currently used is still in place, right? Is there no impact of the mismatch between process definition and running execution? faisalgeek, your code creates a new completely new definition and thus need to instanciate a new execution first. I think this is a different scenario because there is no active process instance changed. Anyways, is there a way to persist a definition created like this into the DB?I think JPDL is persisted as XML LOB not as objects... Thanks! Regards tcr View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4249477#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...