following pieces of console code should be revisisted so that the authenticated user is passed to the engine operations:

public ProcessInstanceRef newInstance(String definitionId, Map<String, Object> processVars)
{
Environment env = ((EnvironmentFactory)processEngine).openEnvironment();

try

{ ExecutionService execService = this.processEngine.getExecutionService(); Execution exec = execService.startProcessInstanceById(definitionId); execService.setVariables(exec.getId(), processVars); return ModelAdaptor.adoptExecution((ExecutionImpl)exec); }

finally

{ env.close(); }

}

First, the API needs to expose a way on how to set the authenticated user programmatically.