JNDIBean's create() method can fail with NoInitialContextException ------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: JBTM-3131 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBTM-3131 Project: JBoss Transaction Manager Issue Type: Bug Components: JTA Affects Versions: 5.9.5.Final Reporter: Laird Nelson Priority: Major For background, see https://github.com/jbosstm/narayana/pull/1403#issuecomment-479495649 and following. Briefly, in the CDI integration area of {{ArjunaJTA/cdi}}, {{JNDIBean}} attempts to create an {{InitialContext}}. In application server scenarios, the relevant metadata to permit this to happen will exist, and there won't be any issues (so Wildfly etc. are fine here). In CDI SE, it is possible that such metadata _won't_ exist, and a {{NoInitialContextException}} will be thrown. {{NarayanaTransactionManager}} uses a similar strategy, but correctly prevents {{NoInitialContextExceptions}} from being thrown (https://github.com/jbosstm/narayana/blob/54b60a4db37ca859b9742d5f6f25cc82...). The proper solution is to ensure that a {{TransactionSynchronizationRegistry}} bean is set up in a similar manner to {{NarayanaTransactionManager}}. I'll have a pull request to fix this shortly.