"bstansberry(a)jboss.com" wrote : Yep, I know. I interpreted the question as meaning he didn't want to use JTATransactionFactory as the hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class, but rather wanted JDBCTransactionFactory. But as I reread it I see that's not what he said. Thanks for clarifying :) Your understanding of my problem is correct. I wanted to use JDBCTransactionFactory as my transaction lookup class. And as I understood it, cannot be done with JBossCache. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3959893#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...