"adrian(a)jboss.org" wrote : The whole point is that you're supposed to be able to add/interpolate new states. | You might as well just make it an enum if you're going to add an ordinal to the state | (especially if they are sequential ;-) | Ales's suggestion actually handles addition of states, although in different controllers states could be different. E.g. In Controller 1 State-A should be before State-B, and in Controller 2 State-B should be before State-A View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4261771#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...