Value Objects and Entity References

[Adam Cassar]

'lo all,

I am enquiring about peoples experiences with value/detail objects and entity
references.

Some of the entity beans that I have are persisting entity beans (ie their pk's - 1 to 
1 relationships). If I have a detail object with the entity bean as a
attribute, when returning the detail object to the client, I only get null.

I take it this is because an entity bean is not serializable. Is the best
solution to return a handle and get the detail object to look it up?

How are other people on this list handling this?