I just picked up Activiti in Action and am trying to run the ch 1 Junit on Activiti 5.18. The code works fine creating the PrcessEngine when using the inMem function, but fails when using the createStandaloneProcessEngineConfiguration() method. I get an ibatis exception :Error Configuring AutoCommit.
Which database configuration are you using for the standalone process engine configuration? By default it expects a running standalone H2 database, do you have that running?