diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index cb34d79e66..010a055400 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.atomikos</groupId>
       <artifactId>transactions-jdbc</artifactId>
-      <version>4.0.6</version>
+      <version>5.0.3</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
 
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/mybatis/spring/submitted/xa/applicationContext.xml b/src/test/java/org/mybatis/spring/submitted/xa/applicationContext.xml
index a8739f70dd..0e6098cdb3 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/mybatis/spring/submitted/xa/applicationContext.xml
+++ b/src/test/java/org/mybatis/spring/submitted/xa/applicationContext.xml
@@ -47,11 +47,11 @@
 	<bean id="transactionManager" class="com.atomikos.icatch.jta.UserTransactionManager"
 		init-method="init" destroy-method="close" depends-on="userTransactionService">
 
-		<!-- IMPORTANT: disable startup because the userTransactionService above 
+		<!-- IMPORTANT: disable startup because the userTransactionService above
 			does this -->
 		<property name="startupTransactionService" value="false" />
 
-		<!-- when close is called, should we force transactions to terminate or 
+		<!-- when close is called, should we force transactions to terminate or
 			not? -->
 		<property name="forceShutdown" value="false" />
 	</bean>
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@
 		init-method="init" destroy-method="close">
 		<property name="uniqueResourceName" value="masterDBUniqueName" />
 		<property name="xaDataSourceClassName" value="org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedXADataSource" />
+		<property name="localTransactionMode" value="true"/>
 		<property name="minPoolSize">
 			<value>1</value>
 		</property>
@@ -96,6 +97,7 @@
 		init-method="init" destroy-method="close">
 		<property name="uniqueResourceName" value="slaveDBUniqueName" />
 		<property name="xaDataSourceClassName" value="org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedXADataSource" />
+		<property name="localTransactionMode" value="true"/>
 		<property name="minPoolSize">
 			<value>1</value>
 		</property>
@@ -146,4 +148,4 @@
 		<property name="mapperInterface" value="org.mybatis.spring.submitted.xa.UserMapper" />
 	</bean>
 
-</beans>	
+</beans>