Hi Ronald, Thanks a lot for your answer (I was not "watching" this topic so I missed your answer). My knowledge of hibernate is quite limited, however I thought that there might be a cleaner way of getting the timer and the action. Being honest I didn't check how the information of the other entities (tokens, nodes, etc.) are retrieved from the DB and transformed into objects. I will have a look to it. Thanks. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4222918#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...