Looking at jboss_4_0.dtd it seems that MDBs in JBoss do not support the use of "method-attributes",
particularly "transaction-timeout", why is this?

I have looked in to this a little and it doesn't seem to be prohibited by the J2EE specs, in fact
Weblogic seems to support the setting of transaction timeouts on MDBs, so why not JBoss?

I guess it is either an error or a deliberate design decision not to support it, if it's the latter I
would be interested to hear what the rational is?

Adrian Brock wrote:
Because the MDB transaction is not started by the EJB container
like the other EJB types.

Raise a feature request. There is no reason why the ServerSessionPool
cannot ask the EJB container for this information.
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JBoss, Inc.