"pete.muir(a)jboss.org" wrote : A stateless bean has no guarantee of holding state between method requests. Try putting it in the EVENT scope. Hi Pete, I'm really having a day over here. I can't believe I even posted this. I thought that it had been cut over to a stateful component already. I even posted about it being stateless. Thanks for listening I hope you don't charge standard therapist fees on this stuff. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4059685#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...