Wolf-Dieter Fink [http://community.jboss.org/people/wdfink] replied to the discussion "JDBC inside CMT" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/558097#558097 -------------------------------------------------------------- If the preparation must be done and committed nevertheless whether  the Entity access succeeds or not I'll use a SLSB with Tx=RequiresNew  for the JDBC access. If the Entity manipulation failed after this it is a business logic decision to re-queue  the message or not. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/558097#558097] Start a new discussion in Beginner's Corner at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]