Nevermind. I was confusing jboss-transaction-api with jboss-transaction-spi. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4081738#4081738 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4081738