I know little (nothing) about seam, but with stateless beans I've had very little success annotating private methods with @TransactionAttribute. I believe those annotations only work when the method is called from outside the EJB. In this case, it's probably just best for you to inject the UserTransaction as a @Resource and work with that. You should be able to use begin(), commit(), & rollback() for all your transaction needs. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4215065#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...