hi, I'd like to come back to the topic of updating entity beans before delete operations. (see http://www.mail-archive.com/jboss-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg08292.html ) the answer to this was referring to bill's bugfix for issuing updates before finders. (see http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=433115&group_id=228 66&atid=376685 ) the workaround is to issue a finder before deleting an entity bean so that (potentially) updated fields are written to the database first. wouldn't it be better to have JBoss do the updates not only before a finder, but also before a delete operation? is there a chance for this in the 2.4 release? achim _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user