True, a poor choice of words. I guess since it is just a log message, it doesn't affect the executing of the application in anyway. On the other hand, it does sound an alarm which isn't necessarily a problem with the application. I cannot really offer a recommendation for a change unless there is someway to safely detect that a JTA transaction was never started, or otherwise isn't being used. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4029586#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...