EJBCLIENT000045: User transactions not supported by this context in JBoss EAP 6.4

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Issue

  • We are getting this error trying to use UserTransaction from one EAP 6.4 server calling an EJB on another EAP 6.4 server using the server to server configuration.
ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[default-host].[/client].[Faces Servlet]] (http-127.0.0.1:8080-1) JBWEB000236: Servlet.service() for servlet Faces Servlet threw exception: java.lang.IllegalStateException: EJBCLIENT000045: User transactions not supported by this context
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientTransactionContext.getUserTransaction(EJBClientTransactionContext.java:138) [jboss-ejb-client-1.0.41.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.0.41.Final-redhat-1]
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClient.getUserTransaction(EJBClient.java:265) [jboss-ejb-client-1.0.41.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.0.41.Final-redhat-1]
    at com.jboss.examples.ejb3.gui.BackingBean.helloWithUtx(BackingBean.java:84) [classes:]
import org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClient;
import javax.transaction.UserTransaction;

...
      Properties props = new Properties();     
      props.put(Context.URL_PKG_PREFIXES, "org.jboss.ejb.client.naming");
      Context context = new InitialContext(props);  
      UserTransaction utx=EJBClient.getUserTransaction("yourServerName");
      ...
      utx.begin();

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 6.4

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