Thanks Captain! I'll do it your way. Of course a framework:entity-query in components.xml would have been nicer. I believe you cannot automatically deviate a correct count query from any ejb/hql query in general, can we Gavin? If this is true we should think about a countEjbql attribute on framework:entity-query. Makes sense? Chris View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4037936#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...