4) You can't, the AS connection management code needs to be fixed fixed so it invalidates the connection. https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-5080 Jboss 4.2.3 fixes this bug. We will upgrade to this. Thanks for pointing to the bug. 5) You're crazy, but you can use a CheckedAction if you really want to http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=142195&a... Agreed. i didn't really want to do either. it was a last resort because I couldn't figure out why we were seeing that behavior. Joe View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4227842#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...