Thanks for your reply I am not sure how to get ProcessDefinition (like from which class etc..). But i am able to get the deployments by using the below code. String lDeploymentID = lRepositoryService.createDeployment().setName(workflowname).addResourceFromString("xmlstring.jpdl.xml", lWorkflowXML).deploy(); List deployments = RepositoryService.createDeploymentQuery().deploymentDbid(Long.parseLong(lDeploymentID)).list(); Is this the correct way to get the specific deployment from db? Also how can i get the ProcessDefinition object once deploy the xml string? View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4266610#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...