[infinispan-dev] heuristic transactions & failure recovery

[Mircea Markus]

Hi,

Current implementation of tx in JBC/infinispan might result in heuristic 
transactions: e.g. if the coordinator cannot send an commit message (2nd 
phase from 2PC) within a given timeout to some of the participants, this 
might results in data being committed on some nodes and rollbacked on 
other. Even worse, there is no way to take action and recover from the 
failure. Would it make sense to have tx failure recovery  mechanism in  
infinispan?  I'm referring  here to something similar to the way DBs work, 
i.e. based on an persistent tx logs, external notifications etc? Even 
though I didn't see any such request on forums, I guess such a feature 
is mandatory for certain systems, e.g. a financial application. Wdyt?

Cheers,
Mircea