Hi All... I'm using Orion 1.3.8 and EJB 2.0 for CMP. I have written a fairley simple stateless session bean that's job is to just create a particular entity bean and populate it. This session bean is called from a servlet. When the session bean calls create on the home interface object of the entity bean it wants to create, the create method seems to execute properly and returns null. This seems true reguardless of which of two create() methods I call. After the create() method returns but before the next line of code is executed, Orion throws the following exception: java.lang.NullPointerException at CrHome_EntityHomeWrapper7.hashCode(CrHome_EntityHomeWrapper7.java:127 ) at com.evermind.util.ExternalHashSet.get(JAX) at CrHome_EntityHomeWrapper7.create(CrHome_EntityHomeWrapper7.java:335) at com.regtek.slsb.CreateNewCRBean.makeNew(CreateNewCRBean.java:41) at CreateNewCR_StatelessSessionBeanWrapper2.makeNew(CreateNewCR_Stateles sSessionBeanWrapper2.java:54) at com.regtek.protocol_servlets.MakeCR.doPost(MakeCR.java:92) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java) at com.evermind.server.http.d1.si(JAX) at com.evermind.server.http.d1.forward(JAX) at com.evermind.server.http.ed.sp(JAX) at com.evermind.server.http.ed.so(JAX) at com.evermind.util.f.run(JAX) Of course, I have a pile of code and descriptors, but didn't want to post all that. If it is necessary, I will do so. If someone could give me an idea of how to solve this I would appreciate it. I went through the archives and saw one other posting from Sep 22 from someone who was having this exact problem, but I could find no reply. Thanks very much. Jim