Under the J2EE spec, JTS support is optional. It is preferable not to support it by default, rather than maintaining a JTS implementation inside the app server code base in addition to JBossTS JTS as we go forward. App server users requiring transactions over RMI/IIOP will need to download and drop in the JBoss JTS. Some cleanup of the app server code will be beneficial to ensure elegant failure rather than the current exceptions. We may be able to achieve this though the jboss iiop-service.xml settings?

See also JBAS-4024