It appears that bean methods for the purposes of CMT demarcation must be public (from looking at the pointcuts in ejb3-interceptors-aop.xml (in jboss 4.0.4/EJB3 RC7). I can't find this information explicitly in the spec. The spec states that "business methods" must be public. Am I only able to use CMT on "business methods"? I often want to have private methods on a session bean that still have transactional semantics (ie: annotate them with @TransactionAttribute(...)). Can I not do this? Am I missing something? Thanks. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3957421#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...