Something like this is really important for building reusable ActionHandlers that aren't tied to a particular process definition. The workaround that I've used is to write the ActionHandler so that it expects a variable name as a parameter. The ActionHandler then gets the value of the variable at run-time. This works pretty good, except that you end up with more process variables. -Ed Staub View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4161514#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...