I was looking at other posts in the forum and figured that I do need to manage hibernate transactions. I modified the code to do that and it is working now. Hoping this is the right way though, please share your thoughts - I am leaving the code snippet here - | private void createUserAndAssignPortalRole(String userName) throws IllegalArgumentException, ServletException { | Session session = null; | Transaction transaction = null; | | try { | session = getIdentitySessionFactory().openSession(); | transaction = session.beginTransaction(); | if(!isUserInPortalDB(userName)) { | this.filterConfig.getServletContext().log("user not found in portal db, creating user: " + userName); | User user = getUserModule().createUser(userName, ""); //not storing user passwords in database | getMembershipModule().assignRoles(user, getRequiredRoleSet()); | } | } | catch (IdentityException e) { | this.filterConfig.getServletContext().log("could not assign portal role to user: " + userName); | throw new ServletException(e); | } | finally { | if (transaction != null) transaction.commit(); | if (session != null) session.close(); | } | } | View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4212106#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...