I've been using Interceptors for this kind of work. However one can only define EJB3 interceptors at the class level. What I do is a workaround, which I find rather nasty, but since I haven't thought of another way yet and this works, I'll point it out. I define an annotation which has Interceptors defined on it, with targets TYPE and METHOD. I put it on the class where I want a method to be intercepted and put it on the method(s) to be intercepted inside that class as well. In the aroundInvoke, I do a check on that same annotation being present on the calling method. Something like the following: | @AroundInvoke | public Object aroundInvoke(InvocationContext ctx) { | Object result = null; | if(ctx.getMethod().getAnnotation(SomeAnnotation.class) != null) { | try { | result = .... | // The rest of your code | } | catch( ... ) { | } | } | return result; | } | Might not be the most elegant method, but it works for me. I hope that helps you! Regards, Jan View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4127837#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...