Yes well welcome to the world of presumed abort and checked transaction semantics. Although the OTS doesn't mandate them or which implementation you use, it assumes they're in place. (In fact we allow the terminator to be nulled-out to prevent this situation.) So realistically the status depends on the checking that's in place at runtime. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4204061#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...