I have seen many threads on the topic but none seem to solve this issue the "right way". I am currently using SMPC for the bulk of my application. I also have a background process which retrieves a Map from application scope and persists/merges the objects inside of it. This is in a completely separate thread. To do the saving, I need to be able to use transactions explicitly. Naturally, the transaction is not available because there is no Seam context. Has anyone an example of this? Thanks. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4085566#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...