Hi everybody, i have a problem about deadlock on a table. I have twomethod inside a Session EJB. The first does a run a SELECT statament on the table TEST to get some data and put them insiede an ArrayList, then i use this ArrayList to display data on a report. The second method does and insert statement into the table TEST. Well, the table TEST contains about 500.000 records and the database is IBM DB2. When I launch the first method to create the report and, while it is running, I call the second method i get a DEADLOCK error because it seems that the first method LOCKS the entire table TEST. I know that calling a method inside a Session EJB i start a transaction, so could be right put the first method outside the Session EJB to avoid the start of the transaction ? Any suggestion ? I have a doubt, everytime i open a connection (outsidea Session EJB) to a database do i start a trnsaction anyway ? Any suggestion ? Cheers. Stefano View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4013724#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...