YES, YES, YES.. thank you , thank you. It should indeed be optional for backwards compatibility. But if added, the GPD (or a simple ant task) could take a freemarker template or an xslt and generate a basic form. No idea about the JBoss preference but I have no freemarker expertise, nor time to spent time on this. I think that someone with some instruction could make a freemarker template or xslt, at least for a basic byt nice looking form. hmm... I used date/integer from JSF in the webapp for 3.1 and did not need any conversion property or so. Displaying a date object in the process as a human readable string worked without a problem. You can try to install tomahawk and use the datecalendar input type on a variable of Date (create it first in the process instance!!!!) and it works perfectly. It even is possible to take an array from one process variable, use that as the selection in a dropdown list and have the selected result in another processvariable by just referencing the correct variables. so since I've not neede the conversion attribute in 3.1, I have no idea why it should be needed now. Can you explain? Ohhh and... btw, when is the variable-type in the PD???? ;-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3965099#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...