Like being unable to determine the current timeout? :-) int getTransactionTimeout() throws SystemException; I picked SystemException to keep the API consistent, but I guess we could ignore that, or change getTransactionTimeout to throw IllegalStateException too. Speaking of consistency, why does getTransactionTimeout() return int whilst getTimeLeftBeforeTransactionTimeout returns long? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4137844#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...