sorry for my typos in the last post. I meant to cache all the semesters in a stateless bean, but not conversation bean. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4065027#4065027 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4065027