"npirard" wrote : Hello | | I am not sure if I get the point here. I would like to forward a variable throughout some decisions but without persisting them (sensitive data that should not be in my DB) | | could this idea of "transient variable" be what I am looking for? | | but then I do not quite understand the thread shekharv is referring to : the variables set by ExecutionService are persisted, aren't they? I think we're looking for the same thing. and I think it shekharv's sulotion is not what we want. An util class and a ThreadLocal variable can be work here as npirard suggested. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4253458#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...