Fantastic! Many thanks!! This clears up my mystery and my erroneous functional expectation. Happy new year View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3997839#3997839 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3997839