hi all! i have an entity bean that wants to serialize a Handle of another entity bean into the database by using BMP. the serialization works fine. the deserialization, however, finds with a "NoClassFound" exception, saying that the primary key object that belongs to the serialized entity bean cannot be found? it seems that the ClassLoader in the entity bean context does not know anything about the class files in the ejb.jar file, because when i put the ejb.jar file into the orion/lib directory, everything works fine. but i guess that this workaround will produce other problems? yours, lars