If you have the schedulerthread running in the background (with a startup thread) it will load up jBPM and the mappings, etc View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3962830#3962830 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3962830