"weston.price(a)jboss.com" wrote : 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. | ok. So it means somehting like: "Watch out! What you are doing is not optimal but we will do the job for you." "weston.price(a)jboss.com" wrote : | Note, an excellent resource on Java and Transaction Processing in general is the book 'Java Transaction Processing' by Mark Little et al. | | http://www.amazon.com/Java-Transaction-Processing-Implementation-Professi... ;-) I read your recommendation on that earlier this day in some other thread. The order is already placed, so hopefully I have something more to dig in tomorrow! Have a nice day... PeeR View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4023715#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...