Good point! Thanks for that. I must have removed it while trying different things. Unfortunately I still receive the same exception. Not saving it should only prevent me from trying to retrieve it later, which I haven't even gotten to that point, right? I begin getting this exception as soon as I set up my jbpmContext manually. Any other thoughts? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4199260#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...