anonymous wrote : Hopefully I can work this out, but really it seems that an Entity Bean approach is a much better idea.
I don't know if it's too late to reply to this or not... but you could always go the hybrid route... Which is... Use your singletons the way you are now but anytime a method is called which causes a change in the state of your service you store that state in an entity bean. whenever the service loads it would first check for the existence of a state entity and if it doesn't find one it could truely start fresh. If it does find one it could load the state thats been saved in the entity. For performance reasons you could always keep the state in the service as well. Basically you'd have an HA Singleton with cached reads (no sense getting it from the entity since the singleton service is the only thing modifying it) but you'd want all of your writes updating cache and the entity (so if the server goes down the new singleton can load the state). View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3858562#3858562 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3858562 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user