You should return a proxy to a bean via SessionContext.getBusinessObject. Now transaction, security and interceptors are ignored. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4092002#4092002 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4092002