Orion seems to have several issues with dependent object; the worse being that DO->DO relationships don't work. While this sucks, Orion is still light years ahead of BEA since they don't intend to support dependent objects in the 6.0 beta. The interim solution seems to be to make everything an entity bean. My question is this: what are the issues with making all objects entity beans? Speed is the first thing that comes to mind, but I understand the Orion optimizes same-server beans to pass-by-value instead of by-reference. Is this true? Can anyone think of any other issues? I'm probably going to re-design my app to use all entity beans (with some simple EJB->DO relationships) for the time being. -tim
