Hi all, i made some stress tests using orion 1.1.8 + informix 7.3 both under Linux. Everything seems to work well, except of indeterministic exceptions of the following type: com.evermind.server.rmi.OrionRemoteException: Transaction was rolled back: Error in transaction: javax.transaction.xa.XAException: The connection was closed at NMejbBinary_EntityBeanWrapper0.setText(NMejbBinary_EntityBeanWrapper0.java:5 09) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at com.evermind.server.rmi.ba.run(JAX) at com.evermind.server.rmi.a8.gx(JAX, Compiled Code) at com.evermind.server.rmi.a8.run(JAX, Compiled Code) at com.evermind.util.e.run(JAX, Compiled Code) at connection to beatnix.net-media.de/10.0.1.13 as admin at com.evermind.server.rmi.a8.invokeMethod(JAX) at com.evermind.server.rmi.a_.invoke(JAX) at __Proxy3.setText(Unknown Source) at de.netmedia.ejb.test.clienttest.addWords(clienttest.java:102) at de.netmedia.ejb.test.clienttest.main(clienttest.java:256) Nested exception is: javax.transaction.xa.XAException: The connection was closed at com.evermind.sql.al.prepare(JAX, Compiled Code) at com.evermind.server.f8.g3(JAX, Compiled Code) at com.evermind.server.ApplicationServerTransaction.commit(JAX) at com.evermind.server.ApplicationServerTransaction.end(JAX, Compiled Code) at NMejbBinary_EntityBeanWrapper0.setText(NMejbBinary_EntityBeanWrapper0.java:5 07) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at com.evermind.server.rmi.ba.run(JAX) at com.evermind.server.rmi.a8.gx(JAX, Compiled Code) at com.evermind.server.rmi.a8.run(JAX, Compiled Code) at com.evermind.util.e.run(JAX, Compiled Code) at connection to beatnix.net-media.de/10.0.1.13 at com.evermind.server.rmi.OrionRemoteException.g0(JAX) at com.evermind.server.rmi.a8.gv(JAX) at com.evermind.server.rmi.a8.run(JAX) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484) which, i assume, is caused by the database (correct me if i'm wrong). I tried then to use the max-tx-retries to work around this and set it to "10" for all my beans (session and BMP entity beans) in the orion-ejb-jar.xml, which leads in the first transaction to the following exception: com.evermind.server.rmi.OrionRemoteException: Transaction was rolled back: null at NMejbBinaryHome_EntityHomeWrapper16.create(NMejbBinaryHome_EntityHomeWrapper 16.java:663) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at com.evermind.server.rmi.ba.run(JAX) at com.evermind.server.rmi.a8.gx(JAX, Compiled Code) at com.evermind.server.rmi.a8.run(JAX, Compiled Code) at com.evermind.util.e.run(JAX, Compiled Code) at connection to beatnix.net-media.de/10.0.1.13 as admin at com.evermind.server.rmi.a8.invokeMethod(JAX) at com.evermind.server.rmi.a_.invoke(JAX) at com.evermind.server.rmi.a0.invoke(JAX) at __Proxy0.create(Unknown Source) at de.netmedia.ejb.base.binarybean.NMejbBinaryAccess.create(NMejbBinaryAccess.j ava:89) at de.netmedia.ejb.test.clienttest.addWords(clienttest.java:100) at de.netmedia.ejb.test.clienttest.main(clienttest.java:256) Without max-tx-retries it works (except for the above problem). BTW a suggestion for the future: What about having a place (server.xml ?) where you can specify the default values for these things like max-tx-retries, transaction-timeout and so on, preferable for each application (maybe as extension to the application tag)? It's not very handy having them in the orion-ejb-jar.xml. Regards, Jens Stutte ____________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.netmedia.de NetMedia GmbH Neugrabenweg 5-7 66123 Saarbruecken Germany fon: +49 (0) 681 - 3 79 88 - 0 fax: +49 (0) 681 - 3 79 88 - 99