I disagree that it is 'yuk'. You mention yourself that you (want to try to) run *outside* of the container, container being the jBPM 'engine' via a jbpm 'context' (I doubt you will succeed). If you deploy a processdefinition (even just to an in memory db), the container does resolve dependencies for you. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4219755#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...