*sigh* Actually, I'm going to think outloud for a moment. If I have an entity EJB with, say, 20 fields, and I go with the flow and create a transfer object with a matching 20 fields I left with the tedious process of copying 20 fields back and forth every time I want to use the entity. Plus that's a bunch of changes that I have to make should I want to add or remove a field. What a pain! There has to a trick to dealing with these VO/TOs... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3978671#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...