Entity bean never passivating

[Bryan Field-Elliot]

I've been working for a couple of days on this problem -- my entity beans don't seem to be passivating (in other words, never comitting to the database unless I use JonasAdmin).   I am using client transactions, with code like this (in my client):   UserTransaction utx = (UserTransaction)PortableRemoteObject.narrow(new InitialContext().lookup("javax.transaction.UserTransaction"),UserTransaction.class); utx.begin(); CustomerHome home = (CustomerHome)getHome("CustomerHome"); Customer c = home.create(id); c.setEmail(email); c.setUsername(username); utx.commit(); My jonas-ejb-jar.xml file contains descriptors like this:       <jonas-entity>         <ejb-name>Customer</ejb-name>         <passivation-timeout>5</passivation-timeout>         <is-modified-method-name>isModified</is-modified-method-name>         <jndi-name>CustomerHome</jndi-name> My ejb-jar.xml file contains transaction descriptors like this:       <container-transaction>         <method>             <ejb-name>Customer</ejb-name>             <method-name>*</method-name>         </method>         <trans-attribute>Supports</trans-attribute>     </container-transaction> I am using RedHat linux 7.0, Sun JDK 1.3, and JOnAS 2.2.4 (but with GenIC 2.2.5).   This is an important problem to solve for me, because I have an external process which runs every so often, which accesses the database directly (and needs correct data). However, I have a reasonable workaround in place until I solve this problem, and that is, I am using crontab to execute "JonasAdmin -sync" every 60 seconds.   Thanks,   Bryan