I will have a longer response to this post later. For now: I really did not want to do this, but I just committed some code to let you use Hibernate or JPA tx management instead of JTA. Just do this: <transaction:hibernate-transaction session="#{mySession}"/> <transaction:entity-manager-transaction session="#{myEntityManager}"/> Please test this out for me, since I did it especially for you, and I need to release 1.3 in a couple of days. Thanks. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4057020#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...