Hello, My name is Sameer and I am trying to figure out how to start a new transaction from the client of a stateful session bean. After reading the previous mails on this issue, it is evident that getting a reference to the UserTransaction interface is the only way of doing it! (Or is there some other way out as well!!!). But when I try lookup on the initial context it gives an exception stating "java:comp/UserTransaction not found". Please help if you have encountered a similar problem and have found a way of doing it! Please do specify as to how and which xml files have to be modified. Bye for now. Sameer