The Bpel 'hello' example in the user-guide has one inconsistency with the actual example project. The guide gives the following: <assign name="ComposeGreeting" validate="no"> | <documentation>compose a greeting phrase</documentation> | <copy> | <from>concat('Hello, ', $request.name, '!')</from> | <to part="greeting" variable="response" /> | </copy> | </assign> The highlighted value is what Netbeans bpel designer will also produce. However, this does not work in jBPM bpel. Rather, the given hello example project changes the highlighted text into: <from expression="concat('Hello, ', bpel:getVariableData('request', 'name'), '!')" /> And this works. Is there something I'm not seeing here? I figure the first one should also work but so far no luck. No errors are reported, it just hangs. Anyone else had this experience? Versions: jBPM bpel 1.1.1 Jboss AS 4.2.3.GA View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4256115#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...