[rules-users] getFactHandle() problem

Hi all, i want to use the getFactHandle(obj) method to retrieve a previously inserted fact by providing an equivalent object as an argument. The equivalent object is a new object, i.e. it has not the same memory address. Therefore i have overwritten the equals() and hashcode() methods. I also tried to set the assertion-mode for the rulebase to equality-mode. The problem is if i try to get the factHandle for an object that is loaded from the database the getFactHandle() methode returns null. The method does not find the factHandle for this object. What´s the problem? Has this something to deal with the problem in JIRA-1308 (http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-1308)? Thanks, Dennis Jansen