I thought there was a getter for the Hibernate session object but there is just a setter in ProcessEngine. So if you create the hibernate session on your own and inject it into the Process Engine you can use the same session at the engine. I don't know if there is a reason for the missing getter. http://docs.jboss.com/jbpm/v4/javadocs/org/jbpm/api/ProcessEngine.html P.S.: I assumed you were talking about jBPM 4.1. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4262503#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...