"weston.price(a)jboss.com" wrote : anonymous wrote : | | Since, until recently I believe, the most popular OSS databases didn't support XA and/or a JDBC XA Driver, my $5.00 bet is that there is a percentage of users who will run smack into this with JBoss 5. I also bet that the majority of Arjuna customers required XA aware resources and thus never used DBs like MySQL and Postgres. | | | | Yes. You hit the proverbial nail right on the head. The big boys (ie Oracle, DB2) I don't worry about so much. Our open source brethren is my main concern especially since we are touting these DB's as an integral component to our unified 'stack'. | So what you'd be after is something that allowed multiple one-phase resources but whenever a transaction saw more than one of them it said something like "WARNING: YOU ARE SERIOUSLY F*CKING WITH YOUR APPLICATION CONSISTENCY. BACK OFF, TAKE A VACATION AND THEN IF YOU ARE REALLY SURE YOU WANT TO DO THIS THEN CONSIDER YOURSELF WARNED." View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3989391#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...