Serializing and deserializing (and transforming the reference to something that can be transmitted via a web service) works for me also (serializing and deserializing the remote interface). When deserializing, the remote interface points to the original bean. However if the serialized object is returned through a web service and then reused in a later web service call (by passing the serialized object to the service), the serialized object points to a new bean instance instead of the original one. Is there an obvious explanation for this that i have missed? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4117469#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...