"estaub" wrote : Tom, | | You didn't have to put names on process definitions, nodes, etc., but you did. Why? - because people have external handles on these things (in these definition cases, mostly concepts in their brains) by which they want/need to refer to the definition elements. | i think i understand the concept. but i have a hard time finding proper use cases for it. can you give examples ? how would that differ from using the process variables ? just convenience methods ? or would it be conceptually difference. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4016448#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...