@TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRED)
    public void remove(IPersistentObject entity, IUser user) {
        entity.setModifiedBy(user.getIdentification());
        entity.setModifiedDate(ZonedDateTime.now());
        entity.setStatus(DataRecordStatus.DELETED);

        getEntityManager().merge(entity);
        getEntityManager().flush();

        getEntityManager().remove(getEntityManager().merge(entity));
        getEntityManager().flush();

    }

<persistence version="2.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd">
  <persistence-unit name="sqlServerTestPU" transaction-type="JTA">
    <!-- 1 -->
    <provider>org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider</provider>
    <!-- 2 -->
    <!-- We are multi tenant, do not specify JTA data source
    <jta-data-source>${db.jdbcName}</jta-data-source> -->
    <!-- 3 -->
    <properties>
      <property name="hibernate.archive.autodetection" value="class"/>
      <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.SQLServer2008Dialect"/>
      <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="${hibernate.showSql}"/>
      <property name="hibernate.format_sql" value="${hibernate.showSql}"/>
      <property name="hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class" value="org.hibernate.transaction.SunONETransactionManagerLookup"/>
      <property name="hibernate.transaction.jta.platform" value="org.hibernate.service.jta.platform.internal.SunOneJtaPlatform"/>
      <property name="hibernate.enable_lazy_load_no_trans" value="true"/>
      <property name="hibernate.multiTenancy" value="DATABASE"/>
      <property name="hibernate.multi_tenant_connection_provider" value="at.ts.wh.dal.WHMultiTenantConnectionProvider"/>
      <property name="hibernate.tenant_identifier_resolver" value="at.ts.wh.dal.WHCurrentTenantIdentifierResolver"/>
    </properties>
  </persistence-unit>
</persistence>

TENANT1 getConnection com.mchange.v2.c3p0.impl.NewProxyConnection@73b9aad9]]
Hibernate: update ...
Hibernate: delete ...
TENANT1 releaseConnection com.mchange.v2.c3p0.impl.NewProxyConnection@73b9aad9]]