The extended listener helps you avoiding LazyInitialisationExceptions when working with complex relations between entites. However, it caused exactly the problem you had in my app. When I switched back to the normal listener everything was fine again. But it seems your problem is a different one, so I can't help, sorry. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3962202#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...