No, you can not access Transaction Manager outside of the container. If you want to test somoething in the send box using JTA JBoss has DummyTransactionManager that you can use: | // Set up transaction manager | DummyTransactionManager.getInstance(); | Properties prop = new Properties(); | prop.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "org.jboss.cache.transaction.DummyContextFactory"); | UserTransaction tx = (UserTransaction)new InitialContext(prop).lookup("UserTransaction"); | | Hope it helps View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4028068#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...