That is, of course, unless it works! ;-) I have a vague memory of running into the same problem and using Petia's workaround early this year., when I was just starting with JBPM. Unfortunately, I don't remember anything useful, like what the underlying problem was, except that as you'd guess, it had to do with variable resolution. -Ed Staub View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4083927#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...