Hi I'm trying to use the following FullTextSearch query in Jackrabbit 2.0 beta1: Query query = qm.createQuery("SELECT * FROM [my:document] AS document WHERE CONTAINS(document.original, $x)", Query.JCR_SQL2); But the following fails with a "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: not a valid variable in this query:" query.bindVariable("x", vf.createValue("moo")); In fact, query.getBindVariableNames() returns an empty array. Did I miss something? Thanks in advance, Philipp