[hibernate-dev] [OGM] Transaction-aware

[Pawel Kozlowski]

hi!

First of all, thank you for coming up with the idea & implementing
OGM. For quite some time I was thinking of using JPA annotations /
semantics to drive different NoSQL stores but the whole idea of
re-implementing the JPA machinery was really scary. Now we don't need
to do this anymore as we've got OGM :-)

For the few past days I was looking at the
org.hibernate.ogm.dialect.GridDialect interface (as well as at the
existing Map, Infinispan and Ehcache implementations) and it looks
like it is very easy to implement non-transactional behavior (I mean -
persistence of tuples and associations is really straightforward).
What I was struggling with thought is making a NoSQL store aware of
the JTA-transaction demarcation. What I would like to achieve is to
start a transaction in the underlying store (on transaction begin) and
commit/roll it back inside data store when the JTA transaction is
committed / rolled-back.

Looking at the existing implementations it wasn't easy to figure out
how to achieve this. Moreover I've bumped into this discussion:
http://www.mail-archive.com/hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org/msg07373.html
where Emmanuel provided his insight: "Form this discussion it also
seems that we might need to have datastores and
dialect implement the Hibernate transaction object so that the datastore can
properly demarcate when isolation starts and when it ends. But that's clearly
not abstracted yet in Hibernate OGM."

In the end my question is rather simple (although answer might be
not...): what would be OGM-way to start / commit a transaction in the
underlying data store in response to JTA transaction events? Or am I
asking totaly wrong question and I should be taking a different
approach? Would be grateful for any insight.

Cheers,
Pawel Kozlowski