How I'm doing this (bit hacky): I have my own JbpmConfiguration implementation, where I control, how JbpmContext is created. I inject the thread local hibernate session object to JbpmContext. Session object is resolved from entitymanager: public JbpmContext createJbpmContext(String name) { JbpmContext current = getCurrentJbpmContext(); JbpmContext context; if(current != null) { context = current; } else { context = super.createJbpmContext(name); Session hibernateSession = (Session)getEntityManagerFactory().createEntityManager().getDelegate(); context.setSession(hibernateSession); } Session hibernateSession = context.getSession(); if(hibernateSession.getTransaction().isActive()) { getDoCommitStack().push(false); } else { hibernateSession.getTransaction().begin(); getDoCommitStack().clear(); getDoCommitStack().push(true); } return context; } Then you need to override jbpmContextClosed method too (to commit transaction): @Override void jbpmContextClosed(JbpmContext jbpmContext) { if(getDoCommitStack().isEmpty() || getDoCommitStack().pop()) { try { jbpmContext.getSession().getTransaction().commit(); } catch (StaleObjectStateException e) { throw new JbpmPersistenceException("Exception while commiting jbpmContext transaction", e); } finally { super.jbpmContextClosed(jbpmContext); } } } I hope that it is only temporary solution. cvl MikeSchulze wrote: