Suppose I have an ejb defined in some package and a class defined in the same package. The class is inteded to be a read-only bean of the ejb state, that is, suppose the ejb has a property balance. The read-only bean has a property balance defined as:

double balance; //package visability
public double getBalance(){ //public visability
     return blaance;
}

My idea is on my ejb I have a method that returns the read-only state of the ejb to a user. For example, the ejb would have a method as follows:

public ReadOnlyClass getReadOnlyClass(){
     ReadOnlyClass readOnly= new ReadOnlyClass();
     readOnly.balance = this.balance;
     return readOnly;
}

SO HERE's THE PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!

When I use the above approach under weblogic I get an IllegalAccessException on the line:

        "readOnly.balance = this.balance;"

Even though both the ejb and the read-only class are defined in the same package, they are not recognized that way. I think this happens because they are loaded by different class loaders. I do not get this exception if the balance instance member of the read-only class is public.

Can anyone offer confirmation or a solution to this problem?

Thanks!