"pete.muir(a)jboss.org" wrote : I'm not sure its a good idea, not least because you are going to need to write a custom exception handling layer that correctly deals with transaction management. I wrote that in my conversation beans. Usually when something bad happens due to transaction management, the end users can not do anything with it, it has to be fixed by the programmers. So I simply show the user a "Sorry, this error is logged and will be inspected by our programmer very soon." page. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4073740#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...