The message is indeed *normal* in the sense that it is simply warning about the use of a LocalResource in the context of a Global transaction. While JBoss does indeed support this via the Last Resource gambit, it is never really a good idea to use this if the underlying ResourceManager provides an XA aware implementation being that recovery can be comprimised as a result. Note, an excellent resource on Java and Transaction Processing in general the book 'Java Transaction Processing' by Mark Little's et al. http://www.amazon.com/Java-Transaction-Processing-Implementation-Professi... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4023690#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...