Using ProcessService in Automatic Activity

I want to use the ProcessService inside an Automatic Activity to search for a process instance already dealing with a contract (no 2 or more process instances are allowed to work on the same contract). The following code works perfectly:
ProcessService ps;
ps.connectTo(url : Fuego.Server.directoryURL, user : "pelo", password : "pelo");
InstanceFilter instanceFilter;
instanceFilter.create(processService : ps);
SearchScope searchScope =
new SearchScope(ParticipantScope.ALL,StatusScope.ONLY_INPROCESS);
instanceFilter.searchScope = searchScope;
instanceFilter.addAttributeTo(variable : "caseId", comparator : Comparison.CONTAINS, value : "GN" + contractNummer);
Instance[] instances = ps.getInstancesByFilter(filter : instanceFilter);The problem here is that the connectTo method contains the user and password. Is there any other way to get a ProcessService instance differently in an automatic activity? Or is it possible to get the credentials to be used in the connectTo method?

Pelo,
To avoid burying connection credentials in source code, you might specify them as Business Parameters (under Organization). That way they can be configured at run time.
I hope this helps, but I also hope you get a better suggestion.
John

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