In the current console, they the forms work when you give them the name of a task and put them in the 'root' of your process deployment. How they work internally can be seen in the example forms. Retrieval is done in the console. Look in the gwt-console forum on some hints how to use/extend/replace the form implementation (ftl) with something else. ${form.action} to my knowledge is a specifically for the way the ftl forms work. If you have your own tapestry implementation, that would work differently. The form mechanism is now more loosly coupled to the console View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4242540#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...