Surely someone has a hint on this. My experience is the transaction annotations have no effect. -OR- I have misinterpreted something. My experience: no transactions are committed unless the method in the top session bean in the call chain exits. My understanding: A method annotated with: @TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRES_NEW) would commit upon method exit. (not happening) Shouldn't this start a new transaction and commit upon exit???? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4040342#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...