I have managed to resolve my issue with not being able to access jBPM process context variable from within jPDL EL expressions using the following approach: - I implemented an alternate implementation of a jBPM VariableResolver that delegates to the JBPM default variable resolver and the Seam implementation; in my implementation, variables in the JBPM context take precedence; if no value is found for a given variable name in the JBPM context, it looks in the Seam contexts; if there is nothing there, it returns null - I implemented a JBPMBootStrap Seam component that I deploy from components.xml with a depdendency on the Seam JBPM component (meaning my component will start after Seam's); in its @Create/start() method, it just calls JbpmExpressionEvaluator.setVariableResolver(new MyNewVariableResolver()) Seems to be working well so far. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4034357#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...