[wildfly-dev] CMT Batch Puzzle (Was Re: [Transaction synchronization between threads])

I don't see in the spec where it requires any kind of transaction around a job repository. In fact the spec states "Note the implementation of the job repository is outside the scope of this specification.". The RI does have a JDBC repository, but it doesn't insert anything into the tables in a transaction. If we're only seeing this in PostgreSQL and a workaround with putting JobOperator.start() outside a transaction works, I would suggest that's okay for now. I do agree it needs to be fixed, but we might want to look at how we're handling transaction in JBeret as a whole. The RI, not that I want to model anything after it, uses it's own TransactionManagerAdapter. It might make sense for JBeret to use a TransactionManager rather than a UserTransaction. Or put the ownness on the SPI implementation of the BatchEnvironment to handle the transactions.