Re: [weld-dev] persistence and transactions outside Java EE

Dan, Personally, I think the most elegant solution in terms of Java EE is simply to standardize "promotable" transactions. Specifically, JTA could be modified to use local transactions by default and only promote transactions to distributed mode as the need arises. The Microsoft guys have had promotable transactions for ages, I am not sure why we don't have it in Java EE too. This would make the "lightweight" vs "heavyweight" debate moot and keep things simple/consistent from a developer's perspective while most of the systems-level issues are dealt by the container where these things belong instead of a steady leak as a development concern.