In the hope that somebody can help ... I have a EJB 2.1 Stateless Session Bean with this header ... /** | * @ejb.bean name="GeoFeatureServer" | * jndi-name="com.free2be.framework.gis.feature.GeoFeatureServerHome" | * type="Stateless" view-type="remote" | * @ejb.transaction type="Required" | */ , that does this ... /** | * @ejb.interface-method | */ | public GeoFeature findGeoFeature(GeoFeaturePk geoFeaturePk) throws NoSuchElementException { | GeoFeature value = (GeoFeature) cache.getByKey(geoFeaturePk); | if (value == null) { | getLogger().debug(geoFeaturePk + " not cached...loading"); | GeoFeature featureValue = getGeoFeatureDao().findById(geoFeaturePk, false); | value = new GeoFeature(featureValue); | cache.addToCache(value); | } | return value; | } and my Dao looks like this ... | @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") | public V findById(long id, boolean lock) { | V entity; | try { | Session session = getSession(); | // Transaction tx = session.beginTransaction(); | if (lock) | entity = (V) session.load(getPersistentClass(), id, LockMode.UPGRADE); | else | entity = (V) session.load(getPersistentClass(), id); | } catch (HibernateException e) { | throw new NoSuchElementException(e.getMessage()); | } | | return entity; | } | If I take out the session.beginTransaction, I get the "load is not valid without active transaction." If I leave it in, it works like it should. Any ideas as to what/how I'm supposed to configure to get the Application Server to do what it's supposed to do? -Jason View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3972447#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...