Okay, first, let me apologize, I said 5.0.4.GA, when I meant 4.0.5.GA. I would have blamed it on my tired fingers, but I did it across 2 posts! Anyway... in case you didn't read the whole thread, the short short version is anonymous wrote : The problem is the dom4j-1.6.1.jar inside jbpm.war. Once that is removed from the war, you get past the hibernate.cfg.xml problem. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4244979#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...