Well, one person thought adding "select for update" on Entity Loading to JAWS would be useful so I looked into it. It's a rather simple change if anybody thinks it worth adding to CVS(I don't have rw access). I thought it would be useful to be able to turn "select for update" on or off for specific entity beans. It can be turned off/on the same way tuned-updates or read-only can be turned off/on. The xml tag I selected was <select-for-update>. If read-only is turned on select-for-update will always resolve as false. Bill In org.jboss.ejb.plugins.jaws.jdbc.JDBCLoadEntityCommand change the constructor adding this code to the end sql += " FROM " + jawsEntity.getTableName() + " WHERE " + getPkColumnWhereList(); //--start new code if (jawsEntity.hasSelectForUpdate()) { sql += " FOR UPDATE"; } //--end new code setSQL(sql); In org.jboss.ejb.plugins.jaws.metadata.JawsEntityMetaData 1. Add a member variable private boolean selectForUpdate; 2. Change importXML() // read only? If not provided, keep default. String roStr = getElementContent(getOptionalChild(element, "read-only")); if (roStr != null) readOnly = Boolean.valueOf(roStr).booleanValue(); //---start new code String sForUpStr = getElementContent(getOptionalChild(element, "select-for-update")); if (sForUpStr != null) selectForUpdate = (Boolean.valueOf(sForUpStr).booleanValue()) && !readOnly; //---end new code 3. add accessor for selectForUpdate public boolean hasSelectForUpdate() { return selectForUpdate; } _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development