Re: [jboss-as7-dev] transaction integration

I've recently created a bunch of JIRAs for the simpler bits of the transaction integration work. However, there are some design issues that need discussion before the work can be codified into JIRAs... First up, distributed transactions. By that I mean ones involving business logic in more that one JVM. The simpler case of 'distributed' in the multiple resource manager sense already more or less works. The transaction system can run in two modes - jta, which does not support transactions spanning multiple jvms, or jts, which does.

Whilst the transaction control traffic always runs over CORBA, the business logic, typically EJB calls, may not. As far as I can tell there is as yet no spec or documentation on what we intend to support here or how tx context propagation and inflow is intended to work.

There is also the question of the extent to which we'll support tx use by external or legacy clients, be they Java or CORBA. i.e. client to server or server to older server, rather than between two AS7 instances. The ClientUserTransaction proxy arrangement in the old AS pre-dated the jts integration and never worked cleanly with it. We need to come up with something better. Who is handling the requirements and design for this in AS7?