Elisabeth, I do not see a reason why several instances of an application with embedded jBPM could not run against the same database. Neither was there a real problem running multiple threads for executing jobs (timers/async commands) Or I misunderstand your case completely. So I'm wondering why you came to that conclusion View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4238187#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...