anonymous wrote : to be honest, I do not know why i am posting question on this forum, since I am the one who only answers on them, and I really do not think I will have an answer on this one :) Sorry, but that might have to do with how questions are posed, what info is provided etc... - do you use spring jBPM template? if so, ditch it (not spring, just this template, it's officially only for 3.1.x afaik) - Do both the junit and tomcat use spring? - Same jbpm config? (not e.g. one without and one with transactions configured) - same transactionmanager? - same transactionmanager config? - if you cut spring out of it (for this specific situation) does it work then? anonymous wrote : NOTE: since I am using JBPM with spring and within a big enterprise application, I am not able to send short Unit test, that someone can try locally. Hmm...... strange.... Does this mean you have very few big classes that do a lot of work? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4166795#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...