Attached is the fix for 7171918. If a WebRowSet is written to disk that contains a row marked for deletion and then read back into a WebRowSet, it was not marked again as a deleted row. Here is the fix to endElement() to address this. hg diff XmlReaderContentHandler.java diff -r 4580652d9828 src/share/classes/com/sun/rowset/internal/XmlReaderContentHandler.java --- a/src/share/classes/com/sun/rowset/internal/XmlReaderContentHandler.java Fri May 04 16:00:47 2012 -0400 +++ b/src/share/classes/com/sun/rowset/internal/XmlReaderContentHandler.java Fri May 25 15:52:21 2012 -0400 @@ -764,6 +764,7 @@ rs.next(); rs.setOriginalRow(); applyUpdates(); + rs.deleteRow(); } catch (SQLException ex) { throw new SAXException(MessageFormat.format(resBundle.handleGetObject("xmlrch.errdel").toString() , ex.getMessage())); Best, Lance Lance Andersen| Principal Member of Technical Staff | +1.781.442.2037 Oracle Java Engineering 1 Network Drive Burlington, MA 01803 Lance.Andersen@oracle.com