Exactly. If you use the demo setup provided by the distribution, you can use the ProcessEngine which is bound to JNDI. You can adapt the database configuration in the jbpm folder (under deploy) for your database. Another solution is just to use jBPM as a standalone Jar, and creating a process engine using new Configuration().buildProcessEngine(). You can store this object in a static field for example (it's thread-safe). View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4246903#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...