Thanks for your help. I changed the type to java.sql.Timestamp and my problem went away.
I'm still having a tough time getting Hibernate <timestamp/> to prevent 2 users from changing the same data. For any kind souls who know about such things, I've written up my problem on the hibernate forum. http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?t=939112 Lee --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]