Yes, I see the requirement for this, no question there. If Remy can't suggest a replacement, he needs to do the work required to make this a fully supported feature instead of claiming it is "just for debugging purposes." Agreed, we should remove the synchronized block from TC5 as well, for updates to Branch_4_0. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4023162#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...