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 View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3958254#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...