little update. I've also tried calling: processEngine = new Configuration().setHibernateSessionFactory(sessionFactory); processEngine.setHibernateSession(sessionFactory.getCurrentSession()); still with no luck. The following line still returns a null object: repositoryService = processEngine.getRepositoryService(); Etienne View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4269210#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...