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    retrive process variables at runtime
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    created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/jmiguel77">Jose Miguel Loor</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/538391#538391">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>I start a process with variables like this</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Map&lt;String, Object&gt; variables = new HashMap&lt;String, Object&gt;();<br/>variables.put("logNumber", logNumber);</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>ProcessInstance processInstance = ProcessEngine.getExecutionService().startProcessInstanceByKey("myProcess", variables,businessKey);</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>after that, at some other point of my application i want to find if there is any execution that is running and has a specific value in some of the variables; ritght now i have this:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>List&lt;ProcessInstance&gt; instances = ProcessEngineProxy.getExecutionService().createProcessInstanceQuery().processDefinitionId("myProcess").notSuspended().list();<br/>if ((instances != null) &amp;&amp; (!instances.isEmpty())) {<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; for (ProcessInstance processInstance : instances) {<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; processInstance.???????<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; }<br/>}</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>but i am at a lost here; how do i retrieve the variables from each processInstance object ?? there seems to be no method to recover that map</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>please help, i am really new to this jbpm stuff</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>thanks</p></div>

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