Hi Sean: AFAIK, this would not happen. BTW, what version are you using?
Best Regards, Antonio Gallardo Sean Dockery dijo: > Hello there. > > I've had a curious experience recently with OJB, and I was wondering if > someone could confirm my speculations about the behaviour. > > Suppose I have two objects... Product and ProductCategory. The Product > object carries both a productCategoryId field as well as a reference field > productCategory which is declared as auto-retrieve in my class descriptor. > > Consider the following code segment... > > Transaction tx = implementation.newTransaction(); > tx.begin(); > PersistenceBroker broker = ((HasBroker) tx).getBroker(); > Product template = new Product(); > template.setId(productId); > Identity identity = new Identity(template, broker); > Product result = (Product) broker.getObjectByIdentity(identity); > tx.commit(); > > // Thread.sleep(50); > > System.out.println(result.getProductCategory().getName()); > > Curiously, I sometimes experience a null pointer exception because > result.getProductCategory() return null. When I uncomment the > Threat.sleep() call, the null pointer exception never happens. > > This seems to suggest that the productCategory reference is being loaded > by > another thread. Is this the case or can someone explain why > Product.getProductCategory returns null for me sometimes when I first > retrieve the Product object? > > Thanks for your time... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]