I use a client to connect to JBoss 4.0.3SP1 using sun jdk 1.5.

I retrieve a stateless bean and it's ok (stateless is a jboss proxy) but when

I try to create an entity using this bean manager, a ClassNotFoundException is thrown because the returned object is not a proxy, it's the entity bean class, not the remote interface.

The interfaces :

@Remote
public interface ICityManager extends IDataManager<ICity> {
 public ICity create(String name, String code, String country) throws RemoteException;
}

@Remote
public interface ICity extends INamed {
 public String getCode() throws RemoteException;
 public void setCode(String s) throws RemoteException;
 public String getCountry() throws RemoteException;
 public void setCountry(String o) throws RemoteException;
}

The concrete classes :

@Stateless
@Remote(ICityManager.class)
public class CityManagerBean extends AbstractManagerBean<ICity> implements ICityManager {
...
 public ICity create(String name, String code, String country) throws RemoteException {
 ICity o = new City();
 o.setName(name);
 o.setCode(code);
 o.setCountry(country);
 manager.persist(o);

 return o;
}

@Entity(access = AccessType.PROPERTY)
@Table(name = "CITIES", uniqueConstraints = { @UniqueConstraint( columnNames = { INamed.NAME, ICity.CODE, ICity.COUNTRY }
) } )
@Inheritance(strategy = InheritanceType.SINGLE_TABLE)
@Remote(ICity.class)
public class City extends AbstractNamedEntity implements ICity {
 private String code;
 private String country;

 public City() { }
...
 @Id(generate = GeneratorType.IDENTITY)
 @Column(name = ID, nullable = false, unique = true)
 public long getPrimaryKey() { return id; }
...
}

The client :

public static void main(String[] args) {
 try {
 if (System.getSecurityManager() == null) {
 System.setSecurityManager(new AllPermissionsManager());
 }

 DataManagerFactory factory = DataManagerFactory.getInstance();
 ICityManager cityManager = factory.get(ICityManager.class);
 cityManager.removeAll();

 System.out.print("city creation =>");
 System.out.println(cityManager.getClass().getName());
 System.out.println("cities : " + cityManager.size());
 ICity city = cityManager.create("Paris", "75000", "fra"); //ClassNotFoundException appears here
...
}

I don't understand, I need to put my concrete entity class on the class path of the client or it's not necessary (proxy or not) ?