Yeah, Probably because it involves of creating tables, so Hibernate commits it just after, Well, I'll find another solution it's not a big deal, I just wanted to make sure that this is only for the schema related functionality and JBPM is not going to manage the transactions by itself when dealing with processes:-) Thanks a lot, Salaboy! :-) Asaf. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4192624#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...