I continue my experimentation and here is my obervations. using the following method to display the form I am able to set variable values. the form is open with these value however only the description is saved when submiting the form. I think it is more a seam issue or probably misunderstanding. I will probably post something related to this in the seam forum. I think we can consider this discussion close in the context of jbpm. thanks, @StartTask public String displayForm() { org.jboss.seam.bpm.BusinessProcess process = org.jboss.seam.bpm.BusinessProcess.instance(); org.jbpm.graph.exe.ProcessInstance pinstance = org.jboss.seam.bpm.ProcessInstance.instance(); org.jboss.seam.bpm.TaskInstance.instance().setVariable("variable1", "my comments"); pinstance.getContextInstance().createVariable("summary", "sum value"); System.out.println("APD displayForm called"); return "/todoform.xhtml"; } View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4112997#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...