I don't touch transactions in my code anywhere. Here is a strange thing. I take the type=EXTENDED off of my persistence context, and I get a NullPointerException on: | Query query = em.createQuery("from Group where group.id = :id"); | Which tells me that the EntityManager is somehow not getting injected via the @PersistenceContext? HOWEVER, I have another @Stateful bean which has similar functionality, and it is working find. Why is this one being ornery? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3968375#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...