"jhalliday" wrote : Quite. Rather begs the question, why does getTransactionTimeout throw it for any error? How about the case where there is no default timeout set? Is that an error and if not, what's the expected return value. -1 == not specified/unknown But that's really for the case where you specify that the error should be ignored. That usage only existed in the old TM to support the OTS Current.get_timeout() and even there I didn't think it looked correct, but I'm not a big OTS expert. :-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4137855#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...