ProcessDefinition has a deployment (refer to ProcessDefinition.getDeploymentId()). Deployment id is retrieved from process definition. Use DeploymentQuery to find the Deployment using the id. You can get the xml from this deployment. However the bad part is you have to type cast Deployment to DeploymentImpl to be able to access the xml resources. You need to use getResource(String) method there of DeploymentImpl. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4266412#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...