Hi, petemuir! thanks a lot for taking a second look at my problem. I really appreciate that!!! "petemuir" wrote : 1) No, the issue is most likely with your code. Having you tried cleaning and rebuilding from scratch. Well, I kind of started from scratch. However. my real worls starting point was kind of complicated. So I had to reduce complexity step by step and finally ended in the ClassA/ClassE test case I showed you before. "petemuir" wrote : 2) Yes, I do, and it works exactly as I would expect it to for me. This backs Gavin's promise. I'm absolutely convinced now I'm doing something wrong... "petemuir" wrote : | If you are still stuck perhaps put your runnable test case up somewhere and I can look at it. That's extremely nice! Thank's a lot!!! If you don't mind - let me come home first (I'm more or less on the other side of the planet by now and don't have the test code with me). If I can't solve the issue I will happily send you my code. Thanks a lot for this offer, petemuir!!! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3958978#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...