Well it looks like the option won't be necessary. Due to implementation details find will try and load an FQN as an internal id if it is not a reference. Since I am forcing internal id gets to use gravitation this will trigger the interceptor. So since it is already triggered, I also force reference lookups to gravitate as well. However, POJO operations (including reads) will NOT force gravitation. So applications must still ensure that a pojo is not gravitated after a call to find(). -Jason View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4057055#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...