> Will pull the patch from head.

Not from HEAD! The HEAD already contains other changes in XA handling by
Ludovic Orban and is considered unstable in this regard.

I work in Branch_2_1

> The interesting thing is if I only change the configuration file and not the code, to use <XA transaction> to use <Local-transaction> the lock ups start to happen. This is the only change. The code works fine with the rest except for the XA transaction issues discussed earlier, and they only happen once in a while if not under heavy load.
> ...
> Depending on the server. We we use a filter and for MsgServer and the other SAR's we use a Jboss UserTransaction which we manage ourselves.

Hmmmm... Where do your locks happen? When you use filter?

Roman