JBossDeveloper

I should add that I'm currently doing mostly extended persistence in SFSBs, but I do have the occasional LIE where I wasn't exepcting one (and have ended up with a bit more in the way of defensive .merge() calls than I really like).

I would do something like - obviously you need to deal with the case your id is null better...

@Name("currentUserManager")
@Scope(CONVERSATION)
public class CurrentUserManager {

 @In(required="false", value="currentUserId") @Out(scope=SESSION, value="currentUserId")
 private Object id;

 @In
 EntityManager entityManager;

 @Factory
 public User getCurrentUser() {
 if (id != null) {
 return entitymanager.find(User.class, id);
 }
 return new User("noone");
 }

}