My "flush for tables" bit came from this: "mihai.ratiu" wrote : The only difference from my seems to be that after calling persist or merge methods I also call flush for this tables. Please give me a code example of this. Most likely it's what is triggering the JBC remove call. I don't want to poke around guessing when you have code. :) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4200638#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...