anonymous wrote : Consistency should be in the api. It should hide the underlying implementation (be it DB or file or whatever). Good clarification. Though I would suggest that jBPM developers might enjoy a consistent implementation as well. Is there a reason that namespaces couldn't be stored in a 'user table' just as well? Something like *id,jpdlElementId,namespace,tagName,value*? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4054520#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...