One other thing I forgot was the @TransactionManagement and @TransactionAttribute, when injecting the UserTransaction for the thread, I set these items on the bean like so: | @TransactionManagement(TransactionManagementType.BEAN) | @TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.NOT_SUPPORTED) | public class MyBean | { | ... | But this is for bean managed transactions, if you want to continue to use the container managed transactions which is the default, you don't need these, but you can specifically request CMT by doing this: | @TransactionManagement(TransactionManagementType.CONTAINER) | public class MyBean | { | ... | View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4215342#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...