"kukeltje" wrote : a ui framework for? Designing processes? Then I think you are out of luck. It would be very complex to make db tables like in 3. The current (4) situation is much simpler for most cases (but yours). | | Yet, I'd almost like to ask the same question again.... what is it that you want to achieve? What kind of list of nodes/transitions do you want to show? While executing processes? While designing them? kukeltje, I'm not sure if I can explain something more. Just in my case I have a framework which better works on top of database than on top of Java API. Sometimes I need to use some non-java applications for reading data and having process structure presented in DB might be helpful. So that's why I asked such a question. Thanks for your comments, they were quite helpful for me in understanding of the main JBPM's vision. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4251178#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...