Solved it, just had to annotate the persist method (which I had overridden) @Transactional View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4050130#4050130 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4050130