Thanks - that's exactly right. It's unfortunate that there this disparity between the inteceptor/listener interfaces -- I'd planned to use the the interceptor InvocationContext's contextData map to store some object-level state. I'll have to rethink since the EntityListener doesn't pass a context - only the entity Object. anonymous wrote : For EJB entities: | | Use @EntityListener annotation with @PrePersist, @PostPersist, @PreRemove | @PostRemove, @PreUpdate, @PostUpdate, @PostLoad | | | @Interceptors works fine for session bean and MDB. I'm not sure it is supposed to works for entity View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4073007#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...