Re: [infinispan-dev] tx and lock acquisition timeouts

On 2 Sep 2010, at 10:43, Manik Surtani wrote: > You mean when a transaction times out? Or when a task within the transaction throws a TimeoutException within Infinispan (such as timeouts on lock acquisition or RPC)? timeout on lock acquisition. > > If it is the former, then the transaction manager aborts the transaction and calls for a rollback. yes > The latter would propagate to the transaction manager as an application error and also trigger an abort/rollback. it's in our control what to do in this situation, as this happens on the user's thread and doesn't involve the TM. If we cannot acquire locks for a timeout shall we: - throw the TE to the user (we already do that) - mark the tx for rollback OR just leave the tx as it is and allow the user to retry? E.g.: tm.begin() caceh.put(k1); //this throws TE - what would be the status of the transaction after TE is thrown?