Heya.. Throwing an system exception from an ejbCreate method with a "Required" transaction-attribute should result in the container rolling back the transaction. However, this doesn't seem to be the case with Orion 1.4.0. Is Orion doing the right thing (not rolling back) or not? My interpretation of the EJB 1.1 spec is that it *should* rollback the transaction automatically. Markus -- Markus Holmberg | Give me Unix or give me a typewriter. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.freebsd.org/