Hello, i have created a namedquery with ejb to check if the username is used. When the singleResult is null, then i get the following Exception : javax.persistence.NoResultException: getSingleResult() did not retrieve any entities But this exception is the result that i want when the username is free. ^^ Here is the code: public User getUserByUsername(String username) throws DAOException{ try{ Query q = em.createNamedQuery(User.getUserByUsername); q.setParameter("username", username); return (User) q.getSingleResult(); }catch(Exception e){ throwException(username, e); return null; } } Does anybody know what the problem is. :( I will return null andy don`t get an Exception. Thank you very much