foo() contains updates to database. It does a fooHome.persist() where fooHome is an instance of FooHome and FooHome extends EntityHome. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4115536#4115536 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4115536