collection return on finder does not match cmp-field

[sstallion]

i have a entity named Location which contains a cmp-field named 'description' (maps to a String)

defined in said entity, is a custom finder 'findAllDescriptions(Integer pk)' with the ejbql defined as:

SELECT l.description FROM Location AS l

-- as expected it returns a collection

what i did not expect however is that the objects referenced by the collection are not String classes but proxy classes. calling a .toString() on these objects returns output similar to:

local/Location:String data held in description field


am i incorrect is assuming that jboss will return a collection based on the class used by the cmp-field or is this a bug?

dev env:
jboss 3.0.6
mssql 2k


thanks in advance!

steve

[sstallion]

ejbql should be read as:

SELECT l.description FROM Location AS l WHERE l.id = ?1


(the finder /does/ return successfuly for the debugging-anal-retentive)