Joe Gottman [http://community.jboss.org/people/joegottman] replied to the discussion "Bug: jPBM 4.4: JbpmException thrown by ActivityExecution.getActivity()" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/551339#551339 -------------------------------------------------------------- You're right. Environment is in the public interface.  However, EnvironmentFactory is not, so there is no public way to get an Environment variable from the public API.  Also, as you noted Environment does not have a close() method, so there is no way to close an Environment variable using the public api either. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/551339#551339] Start a new discussion in jBPM at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]