JBoss 5.0.1GA - Disable or override default transaction behavior specified in transaction-jboss-beans.xml

[sholavanalli]

I have a Message Driven Bean that has a TransactionAttrbute set to REQUIRED. It basically looks for jobs in a queue and starts them in a new transaction and waits for them to complete. I have one job that runs for more than the transaction timeout value specified in transaction-jboss-beans.xml and hence i get a time out exception for the transaction that was started by the MDB. How do i tell JBoss to stop counting the Transaction Timout value when running this job in particular ? I do not want to change the transaction timeout value by using the @TransactionTimeout annotation. I basically want to tell JBoss to stop counting the transaction timeout value when running only this job. And i also don't care if this particuar job is not inside any transaction. 

[mmusgrov]

You could lookup the transaction manager in JNDI and call suspend and resume on it (http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/transaction/TransactionManager.html#suspend())

[sholavanalli]

Can you please tell me how to do the lookup in JBoss 5.0.1GA ?

[mmusgrov]

Not sure, but you can see the jndi tree by starting JBoss and navigating to the JMX console, thne click on the service=JNDIView link and invoke the list operation. But try the obvious ones first like  java:comp/TransactionManager,  java:jboss/TransactionManager, java:/TransactionManager etc