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This is a very important point. I have a feeling that this might well be
where the problem comes. For some other reason though, I can't test it
right away, but I still would like to know if this is the problem, what I
can do to fix it or what is the way around it.

Thank you so much for your help!

Lifeng

"John McGrath [TeamB]" wrote:

> On Tue, 03 Jul 2001 09:39:30 -0500, Lifeng wrote:
>
> > The obj.getClass().getName() returns the right name with full
> > qualified path name. However, obj instanceof NewEnrolleeOTW
> > returns false.
> >
> > It can't be caused by different classes with the same name --
> > there is only one package contains class NewEnrolleeOTW in
> > the whole project. FYI, this NewEnrolleeOTW is a serilazable
> > object that passed from a calling object into an EJB. The
> > exception occurred in the EJB.
>
> In addition to the the package name and the class name, the identity of
> a class includes the ClassLoader that loaded it.  Is it possible that
> the object was instantiated using a class from a different ClassLoader
> than the code doing the testing?  In that case, the object *is* of a
> different class.  "instanceof" will return false and a cast will fail.
>
> I am not an expert on EJBs, but I do know that EJB containers use
> multiple ClassLoader instances to keep code separate.
>
> Try evaluating the following expression in that context:
>
>    obj.getClass().getClassLoader() == NewEnrolleeOTW.getClassLoader()
>
> If this evaluates to false, then that is your problem.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> John McGrath [TeamB]
>
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