Hi, Apparently what I thought was a clear response, you did not find so. I'll try again. Here's your code annotated. private ProjectInfoHome projectinfohome; private ProjectInfo projectinfo; public ProjectInfoJB getProjectInfoJB(int projectid) throws RemoteException, ICantFindItException { //to avoid spurious results from reuse of session bean instances, always initialize your variables. projectinfo = null; try{ projectinfo = projectinfohome.findByPrimaryKey(new ProjectInfoPK(projectid)); } catch(FinderException fe){ //If you get here, you know for sure the bean you are looking for doesn't exist. // Don't just ignore it, figure out what you want to do and do it; throw new ICantFindItException(); } //with the initialization above, if the find failed, and you ignore the exception, you will at least get a null pointer exception, better than the wrong answer. return projectinfo.getProjectInfoJB(); -->get value object } public ProjectInfoJB getProjectInfoJB() throws RemoteException{ //where is projectinfojb coming from? normally you would create a new object to hand out. //If you already handed this one out to someone, and modify it when the session bean is reused, //the guy who got the reference first is going to get the new values...not what you want. ProjectInfoJB projectinfojb = new ProjectInfoJB(); //get a new one to return. projectinfojb.setAgreementdate(this.agreementdate); projectinfojb.setClient(this.client); projectinfojb.setCommencementdate(this.commencementdate); projectinfojb.setComments(this.comments); projectinfojb.setCompanyid(this.companyid); projectinfojb.setCompletedate(this.completedate); projectinfojb.setContractor(this.contractor); projectinfojb.setContractorperiod(this.contractorperiod); projectinfojb.setContractvalue(this.contractvalue); projectinfojb.setCountry(this.country); projectinfojb.setInchargedp(this.inchargedp); projectinfojb.setInchargeperson(this.inchargeperson); projectinfojb.setOthersconsultant(this.othersconsultant); projectinfojb.setProjectid(this.projectid); projectinfojb.setProjectname(this.projectname); projectinfojb.setProjectno(this.projectno); projectinfojb.setProjecttype(this.projecttype); projectinfojb.setServicescope(this.servicescope); projectinfojb.setStatus(this.status); return projectinfojb; } On 2001.05.10 21:46:48 -0400 Russell wrote: > Hi David , > > If i ignoring the exception , didn't the method will throw null > pointer exception to client. > I have do a testing and found that because my session is stateless > bean , instance variable is not specific for all client. > If i change the session to stateful , the method will throw null > pointer exception. > > Am I correct to said that ? > > Thanks > ><snip> _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user