The jobexecutor is configured via the jbpm config file as is in the docs The title of your post does not match the question.... jbpm.configuration.resource parameter is used (as you could see in the source) as init parameters for either the filter or servlets and configured in the web.xml. This is one of the ways to specify a different config file than e.g. one named 'jbpm.cfg.xml' and putting it on your classpath View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4196399#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...