The ActivationInterceptor *is* associated with passivation being set to true. The ActivationInterceptor is a subclass of the CacheLoaderInterceptor, which should be present and should be recording loading of objects from the DB. The only difference between the ActivationInterceptor and the CacheLoaderInterceptor is that the AI will *remove* objects from the DB if it is loaded from memory, while the CLI *just* loads stuff into memory if needed. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4160807#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...