i think the best option is to have a direct form resource reference like this <task name="Blabla" form="dir/in/business/archive/formresource.form"> for the engine, the form attribute is just a string that is made available through task.getForm() and the referenced resource is available throught RepositoryService.getResourceAsStream method we just created a jira for this and attached it to 4.1. this option still needs to be further discussed if that is the right solution. all comments can best be put on that jira issue. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4239391#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...