It's been niggling at the back of my mind for some time now that there might be something special (beyond what comes in the JPA example) that I have to do to get production ready Transaction support without EJB3. So when you said: anonymous wrote : The JPA transactions were the tricky bits here. It gave me pause. Just trying to avoid any nasty surprises when we go live. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4120574#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...