[jboss-dev] JTA question for the transaction gurus

If I have at least 2 participants enlisted in a JTA tx and call commit, then the commit fails, e.g. due to network problems say due to the XAResource being enable to contact it's server. In this case is it possible the commit fails and the TRansaction is left in state Status.STATUS_PREPARING? Basically I have this situation: I am have a JTA transaction where 2 JMS XAResources are enlisted corresponding to two different servers. I am acking some messages on one server and sending some messages on the other (basically this is a message bridge). If the network fails, the bridge should be able to catch exceptions and retry until the network comes back up. If the failure occurs during the Transaction.commit() call, then I only want to retry the commit if the transaction didn't get prepared, since if it got to the prepare stage then the transaction recovery (hopefully) will commit it eventually. So I am checking Transaction.getStatus() after the failure to work out whether to retry commit or not. Basically my assumption is I should retry after failure if the tx is not prepared. Is this a correct approach? -- Tim Fox JBoss Messaging Technical Lead JBoss - a division of Red Hat T: +44 2088006768 M: +44 7957983205 E: tim.fox(a)jboss.com tim.fox(a)redhat.com