Hi.
I'm trying to extend JBoss with Entity Bean clustering. Currently I'm writing the support for passive creation of Entity Beans. By passive creation I mean creating an Entity Bean without invoking its ejbCreate method. I just have the ID of the bean that has to be created and I don't care about the state. The idea is to use it like this:


ctx = createEntityBean(id);
setEntityBeanState(ctx, state);

This would be useful if, for example, a bean is created on another node and I want to create a local copy as well. My first implementation was to use the InstanceCache:


EnterpriseContext createEntityBean(Object id) {
EnterpriseContext ctx = cache.get();
ctx.setId(id);
cache.insert(ctx);
return ctx;
}

but the PersistenceStore complained about inserting a bean instance with an invalid primary key. So I added the code to set the primary key as well, but then I got the EntityBridgeInvocationHanler complaining that EJB home methods are not allowed to access CMP or CMR fields:

...
Caused by: javax.ejb.EJBException: EJB home methods are not allowed to access CMP or CMR fields: methodName=setName
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.bridge.EntityBridgeInvocationHandler.invoke(EntityBridgeInvocationHandler.java:114)
at org.jboss.proxy.compiler.Runtime.invoke(Runtime.java:59)
at cmtest.ejb.CounterBean$Proxy.setName()
... 35 more

Is there another way to do this or should I pursue this approach?
Thanks,

Jaksa

PS: The code above is just for explaining the problem, I didn't attach the real code because it's too big and spans over a lot of classes.