Let me try to put it this way: if there are any truly asynchronous invocations within the scope of a transaction and those invocations require shipping the transaction context around with them, then you need to work with the Checked Transaction infrastructure to ensure that all work done as a result of those invocations has completed. Whether you do that through some application level correlation or the underlying system does it through some magic, is immaterial as long as it's done. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4256124#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...