> you might be tricked by the formatting ;)

indeed.. you're evilly taking advantage I was confused already.

 > gotcha. I don't think there's any reason not to allow caches that have batching enabled not to be able to participate in distributed transactions, if needed. I also know for a fact that AS/EAP code is relying on this functionality, i.e. batch-able caches to participate in distribute transactions. 

Glad we understood each other now ;-) yes that's what I was asking. Is it really expected in such a case to have the batchContainer return null?