You are not seeing the default way to pass data to delegationhandlers (actionhandlers, eventhandlers, decisionhandlers) Putting something like | | <field name="assignee"> | <string value="johndoe" /> | </field> | inside the handler tag and declaring assignee as a String field in your class will make sure it is passed on View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4251216#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...