Just wanted to post the fix to this. I apologize for multiple posts. There should be a way for the creator to remove a post if it hasn't been replied to. Found the problem after going through the jboss source code and enhancing the debugging. The real issue was that the database instance that i had created (in Informix) didn't have the transaction support. To enable transaction support you have to create the database with following statement. CREATE DATABASE WITH BUFFERED LOG View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3993507#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...