Ah OK, that's true... I was just looking at the ordering of the logic and thought to myself ... that ain't right. Either way, I would think it's better to have these things done in the "correct" order. The code is clearer etc. I don't like the idea of having things like that in the wrong order and relying on synchronization, behvior of other methods etc to compensate. That's another days discussion :) View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4230858#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...