if an excetion occurs container rollbacks automatically. if you want to hold the state of transaction use UserTransaction and this is not a good idea to catch exceptions anonymous wrote : try{...} | catch(SQLEXception e){ | throw new RuntimeException(e);//softening the exception | } can you publish dao.recordError(messageID); methods code. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4105505#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...