[rules-users] Two Integration Servers sharing a single persisted session?

I'm using Drools 5.5 with Hibernate 4 and Spring 3.1. I am trying to implement the shared persisted session referenced (http://www.plugtree.com/making-a-non-persistent-ha-knowledge-session/) but I can not get it to work. I have two knowledge sessions (two instances of the drools integration server) and I would like to share the same persisted session (they both call JPAKnowledgeService.loadStatefulKnowledgeSession() on the same session id). The two integration servers (running in Tomcat) are of course deployed (started) one after the other. They both successfully start and load the existing knowledge session from the database (JPAKnowledgeServer.loadStatefulKnowledgeSession) both instances print out the objects that were stored in the persisted knowledge session. The session that is started last continues to work fine, but the other server throws the vague exception below with no other messages when I send a command to it. If I restart the one that isn't working, that one comes up and starts working and the other instance returns an Exception from then on. Same basic issue when I create a new session (JPAKnowledgeServer.newStatefulKnowledgeSession()). With TRACE debugging, the only exception I am getting in the server logs is: *org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.impl.WebApplicationExceptionMapper toResponse WARNING: WebApplicationException has been caught : Could not commit session or rollback* With debug I see that Hibernate is identifying the dirty session, updating optlock and trying to update the session (see below) but then rolling back (I am not sure why the upodate to session is rolling back, but nothing in the logs indicates the rollback even failed). I'm using local transactions (transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL"). I've tried configuring both org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager as well as org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager (via spring XML config) but get the same error with both. First, is it correct that this /SHOULD/ be possible to do? Secondly, before I post my full spring/hibernate configuration, does anyone have any thoughts about what is causing this or ways to troubleshoot? Thanks in advance for any thoughts, -J a summary of the rollback trace: org.springframework.orm.jpa.ExtendedEntityManagerCreator$ExtendedEntityManagerInvocationHandler.enlistInCurrentTransaction(423) - Starting resource local transaction on application-managed EntityManager [org.hibernate.ejb.EntityManagerImpl@cas5ed94] . . org.hibernate.SQL.logStatement(104) - update SessionInfo set lastModificationDate=?, rulesByteArray=?, startDate=?, OPTLOCK=? where id=? and OPTLOCK=? org.hibernate.ejb.AbstractEntityManagerImpl.markAsRollback(1137) - Mark transaction for rollback org.hibernate.engine.transaction.spi.AbstractTransactionImpl.rollback(203) - rolling back org.hibernate.engine.transaction.internal.jdbc.JdbcTransaction.doRollback(164) - rolled JDBC Connection . . . -- View this message in context: http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/Two-Integration-Servers-sharing-a-singl... Sent from the Drools: User forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com.