>As you can see, some of the hibernate calls are working, but then
>hibernate claims: "Session is currently disconnected". The transaction
>is active. the session was obtained from the service just before the
>invocation of load.
 
Hm, adding these two lines to the JTASessionFactory just before 
returning the session solves the problem: 
 
                if (!hsession.isConnected()) 
                    hsession.reconnect(); 
 
Holger