All, I'm attempting to send a serializable object from an entity bean to a servlet, and am seeing the error below. Seems like it may be a deployment thing, perhaps with helper class PaidTransaction. If someone could point me at a summary for deployment requirements for helper classes needed by a servlet, that would be much appreciated. TIA. John Hogan javax.ejb.EJBException at PaidTransaction_ORList4.getObjects (PaidTransaction_ORList4.java:75) at com.evermind.server.ejb.ORList.size(JAX) at java.util.ArrayList.<init>(Unknown Source) at com.evermind.server.ejb.ORList.getReplacement(JAX) at com.evermind.server.ejb.gv.ajn(JAX) at com.evermind.server.ejb.gv.replaceObject(JAX) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(Unknown Source) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.outputClassFields(Unknown Source) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.defaultWriteObject(Unknown Source) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.outputObject(Unknown Source) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(Unknown Source) at com.evermind.server.ejb.EJBUtils.cloneObject(JAX) at PolicyWrapper_EntityBeanWrapper1.getPolicyProxy (PolicyWrapper_EntityBeanWrapper1.java:278) at com.sc.web.paid.RecentPolicyActivityServlet.doGet (RecentPolicyActivityServlet.java:57) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service (HttpServlet.java:190) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service (HttpServlet.java:302) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service (HttpServlet.java:329) at com.evermind.server.http.d4.s3(JAX) at com.evermind.server.http.d4.s1(JAX) at com.evermind.server.http.eg.s9(JAX) at com.evermind.server.http.eg.dr(JAX) at com.evermind.util.f.run(JAX) _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.com