this more looks like a plain hibernate/caching issue and not jBPM related. You probably have more luck in those forums View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4152258#4152258 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4152258