[infinispan-dev] XAResource or Synchronization?

[Mircea Markus]

On 27 Apr 2011, at 17:01, Jonathan Halliday wrote:
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> It's a question of how you behave when you're unable to handle the data update. If you need the ability to veto it you have to be an XAResource. If you can simply purge the data form the cache on e.g. lock acquisition failure, then Synchronization is fine provided you are in the same process as the TM.
Ah right, so Synchronizations are useful only when writing to the cache is optional. In other words if you use ISPN as a cache and not as a fully fledged data store.
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> Jonathan.
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> On 04/27/2011 04:55 PM, Mircea Markus wrote:
>> Hi,
>> If recovery is NOT used, what would you recommend as the default way of enlisting a transaction: XAResource or Synchronization?
>> Cheers,
>> Mircea
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>> 
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