It's benign, at least in the sense that the code that is doing that is very much doing it by design. And AFAIK it's benign in the sense that there is no reason for JBC to be upset about code making that call. The only miniscule shred of doubt I have comes from the "!" at the end of the log message which implies someone thought it was exciting. ;) View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4215795#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...