"cpopetz" wrote : where anAsyncMethod() is a method marked @Aysnchronous. (I'd mark the observer itself as @Asynchronous, but that gets ignored.) There is an open feature request for this to be supported (I think it makes good sense). anonymous wrote : However, anAsyncMethod() isn't called asynchronously, because TransactionCompletionEvent is an AsynchronousEvent, and seam disallows spawning one asynchronous call from another. This was a bug which we fixed for 2.0.0.GA - what version are you using? You certainly should be able to schedule async calls from other async calls. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4114633#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...