An update on this issue: I moved the entity manager creation code inside my worker thread so as to skirt any issues with transactions being threadlocal etc. I stilll cannot find a way to get a JTA transaction: | ... | | InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext(); | EntityManagerFactory emf = (EntityManagerFactory)ctx.lookup( "java:/MyProjectEntityManagerFactory" ); | | UserTransaction ut = (UserTransaction)ctx.lookup( "java:comp/UserTransaction" ); | | ... | I am able to get a hold of valid objects. Still, I get the same messages about no JTA transactions being found. Of course, any persistent operations I do get queued up and don't get written to the database. Is this a known bug in JBoss' EJB3 or Hibernate layers? I have been hammering on this problem for three days non-stop. Any help from someone out there will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -Raj View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4153200#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...