Hi all, I hope I'll get an answer this way. My problem : I want to lookup the entity bean B in the method of the entity bean A (especially when I create the A bean in the test client). These two beans are in the same application and physically packaged in the same jar. I use no session bean : maybe I did. I search more informations about the transaction tag (tx-attribute). Thanks in advance Sylvain ------------------------------------------------------------------------ My config : - JBOSS 2.0 running on my desktop (Windows2000) - Database : mySQL (v 3.23.35a) on my desktop My application (ejb-jar.xml): <entity> <ejb-name>A</ejb-name> <home>direct1.direct2.AHome</home> <remote>direct1.direct2.A</remote> <ejb-class>direct1.direct2.ABean</ejb-class> <table-name>IM_A</table-name> <create-table>false</create-table> <persistence-type>Container</persistence-type> <prim-key-class>direct1.direct2.APK</prim-key-class> <reentrant>False</reentrant> <tx-attribute>TX_SUPPORTS</tx-attribute> <primkey-field>id</primkey-field> <cmp-field> <field-name>id</field-name> <column-name>id</column-name> </cmp-field> <ejb-ref> <ejb-ref-name>A</ejb-ref-name> <ejb-ref-type>entity</ejb-ref-type> <home>direct1.direct2.BHome</home> <remote>direct1.direct2.B</remote> <ejb-link>B</ejb-link> </ejb-ref> </entity> <entity> <ejb-name>B</ejb-name> <home>direct1.direct2.BHome</home> <remote>direct1.direct2.B</remote> <ejb-class>direct1.direct2.BBean</ejb-class> <table-name>IM_B</table-name> <create-table>false</create-table> <prim-key-class>direct1.direct2.BPK</prim-key-class> <persistence-type>Container</persistence-type> <reentrant>True</reentrant> <tx-attribute>TX_SUPPORTS</tx-attribute> <primkey-field>id</primkey-field> <cmp-field> <field-name>id</field-name> <column-name>id</column-name> <jdbc-type>INTEGER</jdbc-type> <sql-type>INTEGER</sql-type> </cmp-field> </entity> No problem with JBOSS on the deployement. I just want to run one client who create a Bean A's instance and want to read all the associated B bean (the primary key Bean A is an external key of the bean B). Client : InitialContext jndiContext = new InitialContext(); Object ref = jndiContext.lookup("A"); // Get a reference from this to the Bean's Home interface AHome home = (AHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow (ref, AHome.class); // Create a Url Bean A myA = home.create(100,"www.yahoo.fr","toto","POST",0,1,"02/04/2001","02/04/2001", StringToDate("20010402000000"),StringToDate("20010402000000"),"AA","BB",(byt e)0,StringToDate("02/04/2001")); // Recherche .... } Bean A : public void setEntityContext(EntityContext ctx) throws RemoteException { this.urlCtx = ctx; // Initialisation du contexte try { this.myBHome = (BHome) Naming.lookup("//localhost:1099/B"); } catch (RemoteException ne) { System.out.println("RemoteException dans ABean.setEntityContext()"); throw new RemoteException(); } } I've catched an exception on the instruction lookup : java.rmi.ServerException: RemoteException occurred in server thread; nested exception is: javax.transaction.TransactionRolledbackException: null; nested exception is: java.rmi.RemoteException javax.transaction.TransactionRolledbackException: null; nested exception is: java.rmi.RemoteException java.rmi.RemoteException at sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.exceptionReceivedFromServer(StreamRemoteC all.java:245) at sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.executeCall(StreamRemoteCall.java:220) at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.invoke(UnicastRef.java:122) at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.jrmp.server.JRMPContainerInvoker_Stub.invokeHome(Unkno wn Source) at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.jrmp.interfaces.HomeProxy.invoke(HomeProxy.java:248) at org.jboss.proxy.ProxyCompiler$Runtime.invoke(ProxyCompiler.java:74) at IMonitor.entity.UrlHome$Proxy.create(Unknown Source) at TestBean.main(TestBean.java:43) _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user