That's more than a javadoc change. The only exception I can throw with the current method signature is RollbackException, which is hardly appropriate for those cases. The spi would have to change too. Fix for trunk maybe, I'll have to rev the spi anyhow for the new recovery handling. Right, so it's not actually optional if AS 4.2 is going to work as the users expect. Hence the test suite should not consider it optional. Throwing it away should cause a regression, since that breaks existing functionality. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4137801#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...