Hello everyone,

We are suffering from a very strange problem on one of our Stateful Session Beans running in a JBoss 3.2.4 server:

The bean implementation class for our EJB inherits from an abstract class which contains a protected variable of class String[].

This variable is initialized in the abstract class as:

protected String[] MY_ENTITY_TYPES = new String[] {}

And lately, in an "init" method in the child implementation class (which is called from its constructor) this array is given a set of values.

Everything goes well as long as the bean is never passivated during normal operation but, if this happens, when it is activated again... the MY_ENTITY_TYPES variable becomes an empty array!

Nevertheless, the child class has another variable, of type boolean, which is activated with the correct value... this only happens with the String[] variable in the abstract class...

This is a fragment of log from the activation moment:

2005-09-22 01:15:22,818 INFO [inventory.oss.facade.JVTResourceInventorySessionEJB] Constructor: Initializing class variables...
2005-09-22 01:15:22,819 DEBUG [org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulSessionFilePersistenceManager] Attempting to activate; ctx=org.jboss.ejb.StatefulSessionEnterpriseContext@b528d
2005-09-22 01:15:22,819 DEBUG [org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulSessionFilePersistenceManager] Reading session state from: /home/jboss/project-jboss-server/server/default/tmp/sessions/JVTResourceInventorySession-edmstqal-4/edw2zkok-jqn.ser
2005-09-22 01:15:22,819 DEBUG [org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulSessionFilePersistenceManager] Session state: inventory.oss.facade.JVTResourceInventorySessionEJB@158ba7e
2005-09-22 01:15:22,819 DEBUG [org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulSessionFilePersistenceManager] Removing passivated state file: /home/jboss/project-jboss-server/server/default/tmp/sessions/JVTResourceInventorySession-edmstqal-4/edw2zkok-jqn.ser
2005-09-22 01:15:22,819 DEBUG [org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulSessionFilePersistenceManager] Activation complete; ctx=org.jboss.ejb.StatefulSessionEnterpriseContext@b528d
2005-09-22 01:15:22,820 WARN [inventory.oss.facade.JVTResourceInventorySessionEJB]
WARNING: Initialized values lost bug detected. Proceeding with walkaround. Exception message reads: ManagedEntity type inventory.entities.CircuitViewValue is not supported.

We're quite lost here, to be sincere... we don't know whether this has to do with the fact that it is a protected variable, that it resides in an abstract class... whichever the reason, it cannot be an issue related to the variables not being serializable, as a String[] should be serializable...

Any ideas/comments?

Thank you very much.

Cru.