that won't work either as you won't have the same persistence context and the returned entity won't be managed anymore.
I fhink you need to rearchitect your API as suggested above. BTW, your scenario is exactly the reason why the spec has find() which returns null and getReference() which throws an ENFE. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3914666#3914666 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3914666 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list JBoss-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user