Hi all, Let me explain how I came to this question by first reformulating more precisely my question: Why should the EJBFIND methods always instantiate the entity beans? Why do I ask this? In some cases, we could have the necessity to only get read-only data (perform a sort of lookup) to display them to the end-user so that he will be able to select the right objects he want to work with. Suppose the result of an EJBFIND method is 1,000 rows in a RDBMS, should 1,000 entity beans be instantiated on the server? I don�t think so because generally we perform such an operation to display a list of content to perform a selection. It�s only when the end-user will select an item of the list that we need to instantiate the corresponding entity bean because we can suppose that the end-user wants to perform some business functions on it. The process of instantiating an entity bean, even if the EJB server provides pooling capability, is very resource and time consuming. I�ve made some tests with a popular EJB server, installed on a powerful machine; it�s amazing how slow this can be. I know that with the current version of the EJB specs (1.0) entity beans are optional but I would like to know: - Are they any EJB server/container vendors that provide added features to allow developers to perform a search without instantiating the Entity Beans for lookup reasons? - Will the next version of the EJB spec (1.1 or 2.0) provide an answer to this problem (lookup mechanism with non-instantiation of entity beans)? I personally think that this non-instantiation aspect (lookup capability) is very crucial from the performance point of view. Something is missing there in the actual specs. Daniel
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