"gavin.king(a)jboss.com" wrote : This is very dangerous stuff. Hibernate entities should never be used in two concurrent transactions/persistence contexts. You will need some kind of DTOish thing to work around. Wait are you saying that even if I use this events trick to send the message AFTER the transaction has committed, that's still dangerous? Because it's working fine right now, but that doesn't mean it's correct or stable, so I'm curious. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4013888#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...