I think I had a deployment problem, the listed code seems to be working now as expected. False alarm :) Regards, -SB View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4181971#4181971 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4181971