Dear friends, My name is Sameer Khanna and I am relatively new to this mailing list. I am trying to incorporate transactional features into my stateful session beans. As such I have been confronted with few problems. I would appreciate if someone can help. 1). When I try and start a transaction from the client's code using the UserTransaction interface, it gives a runtime error stating "java:comp/UserTransaction not found". What, if any other, is the name to be used for looking up UserTransaction interface in the context? If it is not bound in the JNDI tree by default, how to go about binding it in the JNDI context? 2). If I want to implement SessionSynchronization interface in my Stateful Session bean, what are the steps to go about it (apart from implemeting its three methods in the Bean implementation class). I am asking this question because the methods don't seem to be called in the bean that I have made. If you have any working example that can illustrate the usage of SessionSynccronization interface, please be considerate enough to send it accross. I am using currently using Orion ver 1.3.8 running on a Windows 2000 machine, along with JDK 1.3. Please answer my queries at your earliest convenience as they are critical to the task that I am currently engaged in. Bye for now! Sameer