You can"t do it as per the EJB3 spec but you can do that using an Hibernate interceptor View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3960810#3960810 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3960810