1.- Checkout process-quarkus-example or process-springboot-example 2.- Run the tests with persistence: mvn clean package -Ppersistence There will be an failing test called: PersonsRestTest.testPersonsRestStartFromUserTask which basically tries to add a persons starting from a concrete component using: POST: /persons Header: X-KOGITO-StartFromNode=UserTask_1 Body: { "person" : { "name" : "Jane Doe" , "age" : 30}} The above call will fail when persistence is enabled with a null pointer exception at this line which was introduced in KOGITO-16 .