Correct. I've also tried Atomikos Essentials, which I actually did get to work, but should everyone have to fill out a form to use transactions? http://www.atomikos.com/Main/TransactionsEssentialsDownloadForm That strengthens Gavin's point about how screwed up this situation with transactions has become.

What we we need a simple, reliable, documented way for developers to educate Tomcat how to do transactions correctly. I'm praying that EJB lite is that solution. I've heard some promising statements and we want to confirm them through our archetypes. The whole idea of creating these archetypes, as Steven said, is to get the developer using CDI, JSF 2, JPA and JTA without even a moment of time wasted, with their choice of Tomcat, Jetty or a Java EE container. When we have that, we will have accomplished our first, and most critical, goal.

-Dan