exceptions in jta spec artifact inconsistent with Oracle doc ------------------------------------------------------------ Key: JBTM-1419 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBTM-1419 Project: JBoss Transaction Manager Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: JTA Reporter: Radim Kolář Assignee: Tom Jenkinson exceptions listed in this artifact: <groupId>org.jboss.spec.javax.transaction</groupId> <artifactId>jboss-transaction-api_1.1_spec</artifactId> <version>1.0.1.Final</version> are sometimes not consistent with official JTA 1.1 documentation - http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/jcp/jta-1.1-spec-oth-JSpec For example JTA documentation for Transaction.commit() lists throws IllegalStateException (spec page 34) while this exception is omitted from your spec JAR. There are more cases like that. I recommend you to recheck api spec against PDF documentation from Oracle.