May not be of much help, but try looking it up from the Global JNDI namespace: ctx.lookup("UserTransaction"); View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4063456#4063456 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4063456