Hello, I have run into an interesting problem and would appreciate others opinion on it. I'm running Orion 1.4.4 on NT4.0SP6a. Here's the setup. Class Flag has a static initializer that accesses a SessionBean to initialize some static state. In a client, if I access the class (and thereby cause the static initializer to be executed), everything works fine. However, if the client has not caused the class to be loaded and another call to Orion causes an instance of Flag to be serialized to the client the static initializer fails. It seems that when the class is loaded during deserialization, the call to SessionHome.create() (in the static initializer) returns a null and does _not_ throw any exceptions. Am I missing something? Is it illegal to access EJB in such a manner? Or is this potentially a bug in Orion's serialization/deserialization mechanism? Please help! The obvious workaround is to force the class to be loaded in the application upon startup. However, that introduces an unenforceable requirement on the application clients. Thanks, Vidur
