JBoss development, A new message was posted in the thread "@TransactionTimeout(...) doesn't have effect with com.arjuna.ats.jbossatx.jta.TransactionManagerService": http://community.jboss.org/message/523710#523710 Author : Petteri Hietavirta Profile : http://community.jboss.org/people/pepez Message: -------------------------------------------------------------- We are having the same problem with @TransactionTimeout annotation on  JBoss 5.1.0.GA. I've posted a question to StackOverflow as well but no solution yet: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2184844/jboss-transaction-timeout-setting -------------------------------------------------------------- To reply to this message visit the message page: http://community.jboss.org/message/523710#523710