The only thing that brought my attention was 14.4.7 from JCA. I'm not sure what is a Non-managed environment: anonymous wrote : Transaction Inflow in a Non-managed | Environment | Though the transaction inflow contract is primarily intended for a managed | environment, it may be used in a non-managed environment provided the | application that bootstraps a resource adapter instance is capable of functioning as a | resource manager. | In a non-managed environment, support for the transaction inflow contract is not | required. That is, the getXATerminator method of the BootstrapContext | instance may return a null instance. | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3968736#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...