That seems a massive overkill. Why aren't you using the persistence context? Then you can just do exactly as the tutorial says: | public void delete() | { | messageList.remove(message); | em.remove(message); | message=null; | } | em.remove(message) will remove the 'message' record from the database. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4035649#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...