diff --git a/core/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/system/spring-core-system-context-inheritable.xml b/core/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/system/spring-core-system-context-inheritable.xml
index 2d454acdd7e..6a1d0ea1662 100644
--- a/core/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/system/spring-core-system-context-inheritable.xml
+++ b/core/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/system/spring-core-system-context-inheritable.xml
@@ -40,13 +40,8 @@
   <!--
     AOP
   -->
-  <bean id="transactionContextInterceptor" class="com.cloud.utils.db.TransactionContextInterceptor" />
   <bean id="actionEventInterceptor" class="com.cloud.event.ActionEventInterceptor" />
   <aop:config>
-    <aop:advisor advice-ref="transactionContextInterceptor" 
-        pointcut="target(com.cloud.utils.db.GenericDaoBase)" />
-    <aop:advisor advice-ref="transactionContextInterceptor" 
-        pointcut="execution(* com.cloud.utils.db.EntityManager.*(..))" />
     <aop:advisor advice-ref="actionEventInterceptor" 
         pointcut="execution(* *(..)) &amp;&amp; @annotation(com.cloud.event.ActionEvent)" />
     <aop:advisor advice-ref="actionEventInterceptor" 
diff --git a/framework/db/src/com/cloud/utils/db/TransactionContextInterceptor.java b/framework/db/src/com/cloud/utils/db/TransactionContextInterceptor.java
deleted file mode 100644
index bd747b152cd..00000000000
--- a/framework/db/src/com/cloud/utils/db/TransactionContextInterceptor.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-package com.cloud.utils.db;
-
-import org.aopalliance.intercept.MethodInterceptor;
-import org.aopalliance.intercept.MethodInvocation;
-
-public class TransactionContextInterceptor implements MethodInterceptor {
-
-    public TransactionContextInterceptor() {
-
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public Object invoke(MethodInvocation m) throws Throwable {
-        TransactionLegacy txn = TransactionLegacy.open(m.getMethod().getName());
-        try {
-            return m.proceed();
-        } finally {
-            txn.close();
-        }
-    }
-
-}