FindByProperty Returns Same Record Twice

Question

I have a curious situation in which the findByProperty method is returning the same record twice. I have only two records in the file for this test, and they are both tied to the same contact ID. But, instead of bringing back both records, it brings back the first record twice. Any ideas?
ContactNote entity
@Entity
@Table(name = "CONTNOTEP", schema = "CRMLIB", catalog = "S657567F", uniqueConstraints = {})
public class ContactNote implements java.io.Serializable
     // Fields
     @Id
     @Column(name = "CONTACTID", unique = false, nullable = false, insertable = true, updatable = true, precision = 5, scale = 0)
     private Long                    contactId;
     @Temporal(TemporalType.DATE)
     @Column(name = "CNDATE", unique = false, nullable = false, insertable = true, updatable = true, length = 10)
     private Date                    lastUpdatedDate;
     @Temporal(TemporalType.TIME)
     @Column(name = "CNTIME", unique = false, nullable = false, insertable = true, updatable = true, length = 8)
     private Date                    lastUpdatedTime;
     @Column(name = "CNNOTE", unique = false, nullable = false, insertable = true, updatable = true, length = 100)
     private String                    note;
     @Column(name = "CNSALMNUM", unique = false, nullable = false, insertable = true, updatable = true, length = 2)
     private String                    salesmanNumber;
     @ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, cascade = {})
     @JoinColumn(name = "CONTACTID", insertable = false, updatable = false)
     private Contact                    contact;
     @Transient
     private GregorianCalendar     date;
ContactServiceImpl
     public List<ContactNote> getContactNotes(String sessionId, Long contactId) throws AuthenticationFault
          authenticateSession(sessionId);
          List<ContactNote> contactNoteList = contactNoteDao.findByProperty("contactId", contactId);
          if (contactNoteList.size() == 0)
               ContactNote contactNote = new ContactNote();
               contactNoteList.add(contactNote.defaultContactNote());
          return contactNoteList;
JUnit Test Method
     @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
     public void runGetContactNotes() throws Exception
          UserDao userDao = (UserDao) applicationContext.getBean("userDao");
          User user = userDao.login("[email protected]", "password");
          assertNotNull(user);
          ContactService dao = (ContactService) applicationContext.getBean("contactService");
          List<ContactNote> contactNoteList =
               dao.getContactNotes(user.getSessionId(), 1276L);
          for (ContactNote note : contactNoteList)
               System.out.println(note.getContactNoteId() + " " + note.getNote());
Results of Test
[TopLink Fine]: 2007.10.02 08:50:30.988--ClientSession(7339385)--Connection(6964063)--Thread(Thread[main,5,mai
n])--SELECT CONTACTID, CNTIME, CNNOTE, CNDATE, CNSALMNUM FROM CRMLIB.CONTNOTEP WHERE (CONTACTID = CAST (? AS B
IGINT ))
     bind => [1276]
1276 Jason requested to get Sinclair gift card "backs" because they have so many returned/used gift cards
1276 Jason requested to get Sinclair gift card "backs" because they have so many returned/used gift cardsThanks for any help that can be provided. This has me stumped.
R. Grimes
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rdgrimes

Answer 1

I was able to resolve this situation by splitting the ContactNote entity in two: ContactNoteId and ContactNote. I had combined them because it seemed kind of silly to have the id, date, time in the ContactNoteID entity, while the ContactNote entity just had two fields beyond the embedded id.
R. Grimes