anonymous wrote : In less common use cases within Java EE environments, applications may need to access a persistence context that is ?stand-alone??i.e. not propagated along with the JTA transaction across the EntityManager references for the given persistence unit. | Never tried it like you have, but committing your JTA transaction doesn't make much sense. Try em.joinTransaction() or em.getTransaction().commit(). Lets see what happens. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4068740#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...