Can't you let hibernate take care of this? I mean you can do Session.delete(membership)... Haven't tried it though. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4027485#4027485 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4027485