So finally, I found a solution for my problem: I have a bean that has not only methods writing to the database, but also provide some other stuff. And I don't want to have auto-flushes after the latter. You should prevent EJB from auto-flushing and write to the database explicitely when you need it by em.flush(). There are several ways to switch auto-flushing off: * @Begin(flushMode=FlushModeType.MANUAL) | | But this is still a feature from the future (i.e. only in the CVS version) and should not be applied in production environments. | | | * Try to set the flush mode on the Hibernate Session and manually perform transactions ... and tell me how you succeeded (i.e. this could work but you better don't waste your time with this unless you're a real expert ;)). | | | * @TransactionManagement(TransactionManagementType.BEAN) | | Usually Beans have Container Managed Transactions. But with this annotation you tell EJB3 that you want to care about transactions yourself (User Managed Transactions). Well, and this is what you also have to do then, of course. Back to stoneage - don't do this ;). | | | * @TransactionAttribute | | As a default all methods have the transaction attribute REQUIRED. That means they are all wrapped by a transaction. If you want to change this you can use the transaction attribute NOT_SUPPORTED (btw: there are even more types, for the sake of completeness). There are two possibilities: | | - To prevent a single method from being run in a transaction (which will lead to auto-flushes) annotate it with @TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.NOT_SUPPORTED). If you have multiple methods like this you need multiple annotations ;). | | - Or annotate the class itself with @TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.NOT_SUPPORTED) (all methods will "inherit" this). Then restore the default behaviour to some special methods (e.g. store, delete) by annotating them with @TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRED) | | Depends on what is shorter for you. I annotated my class with NOT_SUPPORTED and the store and delete method with REQUIRED. That's only three annotations... nice :). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3965793#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...