Jose Miguel Loor [http://community.jboss.org/people/jmiguel77] created the discussion "retrive process variables at runtime" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/538391#538391 -------------------------------------------------------------- Hi I start a process with variables like this Map<String, Object> variables = new HashMap<String, Object>(); variables.put("logNumber", logNumber); ProcessInstance processInstance = ProcessEngine.getExecutionService().startProcessInstanceByKey("myProcess", variables,businessKey); after that, at some other point of my application i want to find if there is any execution that is running and has a specific value in some of the variables; ritght now i have this: List<ProcessInstance> instances = ProcessEngineProxy.getExecutionService().createProcessInstanceQuery().processDefinitionId("myProcess").notSuspended().list(); if ((instances != null) && (!instances.isEmpty())) {      for (ProcessInstance processInstance : instances) {           processInstance.???????      } } but i am at a lost here; how do i retrieve the variables from each processInstance object ?? there seems to be no method to recover that map please help, i am really new to this jbpm stuff thanks -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/538391#538391] Start a new discussion in jBPM at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]