"fguerzoni" wrote : From Entity Bean tutorial: | | Entity Beans have been given a complete overhaul in EJB 3.0. Entity beans are plain Java objects that can be allocated with new and attached/detached/reattached to persistence storage. Entity beans are not remotable and must be access through the new javax.persistence.EntityManager service. JBoss's EJB 3.0 implementation is built on top of Hibernate. | | So with ejb3, the facade pattern, is not an option anymore. | | bye | F Ok, I've put a session bean in front of my entities now, following the MVC pattern. I guess my initial question should have read: How can I instantiate an Entity Manager on a stand alone client? I had already figured out that the client couldn't connect directly to an entity bean. However, all of my attempts to instantiate an entity manager on a client failed. Is there a mechanism for starting an entity manager in the client which persists data to a remote Jboss server? Regards Doug View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3958297#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...