Sanne Grinovero Andrea Boriero Steve Ebersole

Scott Marlow just reading this too, and I agree with Steve: the specification sections you quote are not stating that this method should return null. So please clarify why you think this needs to be done.

My mistake, I was misreading the Hibernate ORM 5.1 code.

	public EntityTransaction getTransaction() {
		if ( transactionType == PersistenceUnitTransactionType.JTA ) {
			throw new IllegalStateException( "A JTA EntityManager cannot use getTransaction()" );
		}
		return tx;
	}

Where 'tx' is always expected to be non-null due to initialization:

protected transient TransactionImpl tx = new TransactionImpl( this );

I changed the title of this jira accordingly. Sorry about the mistake.