> Yep! You need to null out that sort of stuff on either passivate or > activate. Personally, I'd do both, but then I'm paranoid. Passivate > would probably be most appropriate (that'll help the garbage > collector > behave appropriately, among other things) Magic! And it suddenly turns from generating rubbush to generating data. With the other stuff, I'm creating an entity bean, then populating it with data and then searching on a non-primary key. So the delayed update will have an effect. Another mystery solved. Thanks very much. _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user