Stateful session PostConstruct missing transaction, security contexts --------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: EJBTHREE-141 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/EJBTHREE-141 Project: EJB 3.0 Issue Type: Bug Components: EJB3 Extensions Environment: jboss-head Reporter: Jeff Schnitzer Assigned To: Bill Burke Fix For: EJB 3.0 RC10 - FD While PostConstruct for stateless beans does not run in a transaction or security context, stateful beans are different. From section 5.1.4.1 "Semantics of the Life Cycle Callback Methods for Stateful Session Beans" of the ejb3-edr2 spec: "The PostConstruct method is invoked in the transaction context and security contexts of the first business method on the bean."