As Scott mentioned, you want to have the "datasource" annotation at the model level, not the entity level.  In the next release of Data Services (or if you are using ADEP now), you can have per-entity datasources, but not in LCDS 3.1.Tom

ItemPending errors means that the data services client is going to fetch an item that was marked as lazy or load-on-demand.  This should be an expected event and handled by any AS code that touches an array collection that has lazy items in it.  For instance the AsyncListView component in Flex autom...

oops, sorry I was still stuck on Async and you were asking about getItem().Tom

Sorry, everything in Flash/Actionscript is async, even though it would be nice sometimes if it wasn't.Tom

You could write your own code to simulate it, but everything in Flash is asyncronous.Tom

You can deploy the model by copying it to the WEB-INF/datamodel directory of your web application.There is currently no Java client to deploy a model to a running server.

It sounds like something is wrong with the ColdFusion serverinstallation. I would check the CF log files, particularlyexception.log, and see if there is more information about what isgoing wrong.