One way to solve it, from my experience, would be to inject another instance of that bean to itself, and invoke the method (the one annotated with REQUIRES_NEW) on that injected bean. Otherwise the transaction attributes annotations have no effect because you're not working with the proxy but with the class itself. i.e. @Stateless public class YourBean impelemts YourBeanLocal { | | @EJB YourBeanLocal yourBean; | | public void callingMethod() { | ... | yourBean.yourRequiresNewMethod(...); | ... | } | | @TransactionAttribute(...REQUIRES_NEW) yourRequiresNewMethod() { | ... | } | } | This does have a problem that whenever using this bean you're actually acquiring 2 instances of it. If you think of a better way to do it, I'll be very glad to know. HTH. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4047057#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...