Transaction Timeout in JBoss

as explained here (it doesn't go in too much detail though...)

in conf/jboss-service.xml you will find either:

mbean code="org.jboss.tm.TransactionManagerService"
attribute name="TransactionTimeout" 300


or
mbean code="com.arjuna.ats.jbossatx.jta.TransactionManagerService"
attribute name="TransactionTimeout" 300

(JBoss can be configured with either TM)

otherwise you can annotate your EJB method with

org.jboss.annotation.ejb.TransactionTimeout
(value is in SECONDS I suppose)

but apparently this annotation works only with the jboss TM

http://community.jboss.org/thread/147020


Here the also complain about this.


Anyway you can still grab the transaction and set timeout in your code...ONLY IF YOU DO BMT!

don't use EntityManager.getTransaction(), this is a EntityTransaction and will not expose you the UserTransaction timeout...

you have the SessionContext (=EJBContext) injected this way:

@Resource
private SessionContext sctx;
...

sctx.getUserTransaction().setTransactionTimeout(1500);


if you do this on a CMT, you get this:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Container bla: it is illegal to inject UserTransaction into a CMT bean
at org.jboss.ejb3.BaseSessionContext.getUserTransaction(BaseSessionContext.java:248)






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