[infinispan-dev] configuring transactional caches

[Mircea Markus]

Hi,

ATM a cache is marked as transactional by setting the transactionalManagerLookup, transactionalManagerLookupClass or enable batching.
This is a bit hard to explain/clumsy and also doesn't work well with the xml config: if one wants the default cache to be transactional and a named cache not to be, it would have to specify an empty transactionManagerLookup attribute - not nice.

So an alternative would be to have an explicit "isTransactional" configuration.
One way to do it is to add a "mode" attribute under the transactional element:
<transaction mode="NON_TRANSACTIONAL | TRANSACTIONAL_SYNCHRONIZED | TRANSACTIONAL_FULL_XA | TRANSACTIONAL_XA_NO_RECOVERY" />  
Somehow similar to the clustering element's mode attribute.

Pete is there an JSR-107 for the above enum? I looked for it in both the spec and API but couldn't find one...

How does this sound?


Cheers,
Mircea