Thinking of it a little bit more, I think a more passive behavior when setRollbackOnly is used would be better, since when invoking it in the transaction manager still allows you to do anything, just the commit will fail. This behavior is also considered at least in JAIN-SLEE, where you can read and set any state, it just won't be committed. What do you think? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4204483#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...