"christian.bauer(a)jboss.com" wrote : By the way, you can always use the TransactionalSeamPhaseListener and @TransactionAttribute(REQUIRES_NEW) to suspend the existing transaction during a particular method call in INVOKE APPLICATION. Your method then executes in a new transaction context - which is committed when the method returns. | Have you actually tried that? I'm asking because it definitely does not work with my application (Seam 1.1, JBoss 4.0.5). I also recall that somehwere Gavin notes that in particular this type of transaction attribute is not supported by the @Transactional notation, which I guess you would have to use in Seam instead of @TransactionAttribute?! http://docs.jboss.com/seam/1.1.1.GA/api/org/jboss/seam/annotations/Transa... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4043088#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...