I wish I could recall this issue... It is my mistake. The environment which had this working had a different process running which did not run the locateTask code and thus did not fail. This through me off and caused the question. However, once I found out this difference I realized that when running within the same session, changes done to persistent objects will not show up in regular selects. I changed my query to an HQL query and everything is working fine. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4196280#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...