diff --git a/multiapps-controller-web/src/main/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/controller/web/configuration/CustomEngineConfigurator.java b/multiapps-controller-web/src/main/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/controller/web/configuration/CustomEngineConfigurator.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ddf14fe692
--- /dev/null
+++ b/multiapps-controller-web/src/main/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/controller/web/configuration/CustomEngineConfigurator.java
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+package org.cloudfoundry.multiapps.controller.web.configuration;
+
+import org.flowable.common.engine.impl.AbstractEngineConfiguration;
+import org.flowable.common.engine.impl.EngineConfigurator;
+import org.flowable.engine.impl.cfg.ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl;
+import org.flowable.variable.api.types.VariableType;
+import org.flowable.variable.api.types.VariableTypes;
+import org.flowable.variable.service.impl.types.LongStringType;
+
+public class CustomEngineConfigurator implements EngineConfigurator {
+
+    @Override
+    public void beforeInit(AbstractEngineConfiguration engineConfiguration) {
+
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void configure(AbstractEngineConfiguration engineConfiguration) {
+        ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl configuration = (ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl) engineConfiguration;
+        VariableTypes variableTypes = configuration.getVariableTypes();
+        VariableType longStringVariableType = variableTypes.getVariableType(LongStringType.TYPE_NAME);
+        int longStringVariableTypeIndex = variableTypes.getTypeIndex(LongStringType.TYPE_NAME);
+        // We are first removing the Flowable LongStringType, and then we add our custom
+        variableTypes.removeType(longStringVariableType);
+        variableTypes.addType(new CustomLongStringType(configuration.getMaxLengthString()), longStringVariableTypeIndex);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getPriority() {
+        return 0;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/multiapps-controller-web/src/main/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/controller/web/configuration/CustomLongStringType.java b/multiapps-controller-web/src/main/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/controller/web/configuration/CustomLongStringType.java
index 2994c7e629..eeca72e500 100644
--- a/multiapps-controller-web/src/main/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/controller/web/configuration/CustomLongStringType.java
+++ b/multiapps-controller-web/src/main/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/controller/web/configuration/CustomLongStringType.java
@@ -5,15 +5,8 @@
 
 public class CustomLongStringType extends LongStringType {
 
-    private static final String CUSTOM_TYPE_NAME = "deployServiceLongString";
-
-    public CustomLongStringType() {
-        super(4000);
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public String getTypeName() {
-        return CUSTOM_TYPE_NAME;
+    public CustomLongStringType(int minLength) {
+        super(minLength);
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/multiapps-controller-web/src/main/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/controller/web/configuration/FlowableConfiguration.java b/multiapps-controller-web/src/main/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/controller/web/configuration/FlowableConfiguration.java
index 6fef6638cd..8675b7eab3 100644
--- a/multiapps-controller-web/src/main/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/controller/web/configuration/FlowableConfiguration.java
+++ b/multiapps-controller-web/src/main/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/controller/web/configuration/FlowableConfiguration.java
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 package org.cloudfoundry.multiapps.controller.web.configuration;
 
-import java.util.List;
 import java.util.UUID;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.function.Supplier;
@@ -61,10 +60,10 @@ public SpringProcessEngineConfiguration processEngineConfiguration(DataSource da
                                                                        AsyncExecutor jobExecutor,
                                                                        @Lazy FailedJobCommandFactory abortFailedProcessCommandFactory) {
         SpringProcessEngineConfiguration processEngineConfiguration = new SpringProcessEngineConfiguration();
-        //We set custom variable type because when we update a value in the context, we see in your code that it has been updated
+        //We set custom engine configurator because when we update a value in the context, we see in your code that it has been updated
         //but the cache isn't. That's why with custom type we manually update the cache
         //Link to the Flowable Github issue: https://github.com/flowable/flowable-engine/issues/4130
-        processEngineConfiguration.setCustomPreVariableTypes(List.of(new CustomLongStringType()));
+        processEngineConfiguration.addConfigurator(new CustomEngineConfigurator());
         processEngineConfiguration.setDatabaseSchemaUpdate(DATABASE_SCHEMA_UPDATE);
         processEngineConfiguration.setDataSource(dataSource);
         processEngineConfiguration.setTransactionManager(transactionManager);