"saraswati.santanu" wrote : I dont see a transaction manager bean defined in your spring application context xml. Is it there? If it is not then you need to define one. bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager"> /bean have a HibernateTransactionManager in applicationContext.xml View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4265149#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...