Transaction error - please help.

[J Waldinger]

Hi,
I have a stateless session bean with bean-managed transactions. It is throwing an IllegalStateException when it tries to call:
utx = mySessionCtx.getUserTransaction();
where utx is a javax.transaction.UserTransaction and mySessionCtx is a javax.ejb.SessionContext. The bean is defined as follows:
<session id="Session_1061575773750">
<ejb-name>ReservationManager</ejb-name>
<home>com.bostoncoach.gtx.ReservationManagerHome</home>
<remote>com.bostoncoach.gtx.ReservationManager</remote>
<ejb-class>com.bostoncoach.gtx.ReservationManagerBean</ejb-class>
<session-type>Stateless</session-type>
<transaction-type>Bean</transaction-type>
<env-entry id="EnvEntry_1061575892797">
<env-entry-name>ejb10-properties/loglevel</env-entry-name>
<env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
<env-entry-value>bleach</env-entry-value>
</env-entry>
</session>
According to JavaDoc, getUserTransaction throws "java.lang.IllegalStateException - The Container throws the exception if the instance is not allowed to use the UserTransaction interface (i.e. the instance is of a bean with container-managed transactions)."
However, according to the definition of my bean in the deployment descriptor, this is a stateless session bean with bean-managed transactions, and hence should be fine. So what's up?
Many thanks for any help.
Jamie

[Juan Rolando Prieur-Reza]

Originally posted by J Waldinger:
...hence should be fine. So what's up?
...

just some thoughts...
be sure to call getUserTransaction in ejbCreate, not ejbActivate for SLSB.
and begin() before anything else.
no obvious problems. hmmmm.