Try declaring your logger as static. I believe log4j is multi-thread safe. This should prevent the container from trying to serialize your logger when it passivates your bean.

hi

also...

code:
private Logger logger = null

public void ejbActivate() {
logger = Logger.getLogger("cts.ejb.user.session."
+ getClass().getName());

logger.debug("ejbActivate");
}

public void ejbPassivate() {
logger.debug("ejbPassivate");
logger = null;
}


cheers L

Hi raj_cmu,

static fields in a class means:
all instances of this class refere the same attribut.
In this case all instances of your bean use exactly the same Logger-instance!

It make no sense for an EntityBean to store this attribute in a storage ;-)


one word to
private static Logger ......

it make sense to declare
private static final Logger ....

Reason:
You will never change the Logger so you become a better Performance in your application when you use it thorough for this kind of attributes.

Wolf

Roger, it's all in the specs. Neither transient nor static fields are serialized by the default serialization mechanism.