Re: [seam-dev] persistence module page drafted

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Right. I'm imagining that we can inject the native UserTransaction interface > or our extended interface, but either way you are getting the same bean > instance. Internally we stick the our extended interface to keep the code > readable, the user gets a choice. > It's not just about wrapping these few status methods and adding the enlist > method. It's about taring the transaction API to a single interface. > Basically, UserTransaction is the interface, the implementation could be > non-JTA. This is also important in mock environments. We use JTA in J2EE containers, but not in unit test land (or in development container environments like Jetty), and Seam's transaction API allows us to easily stub out the same API in the latter case. Truth be told, it's possible to swap out the JTA impl with a mock in a test