In jBoss-5.0.1.GA there was the configuration file ${JBOSS_HOME}/${SERVER_CONFIG}/conf/jbossjta-properties.xml. In order to enable distributed transactions for multiple local resources (non-XA) the following option had to be inserted into this file:
In jBoss-5.1.0.GA this config file has been replaced by ${JBOSS_HOME}/${SERVER_CONFIG}/conf/jbossts-properties.xml. So you have to add the same line into the xml-element with name properties and attributes depends with value “arjuna” and name with value “jta”:
<!-- ... -->