[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (AS7-1358) UserTransaction not available to non-EE threads

[Ben Kirby (JIRA)]

    [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-1358?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12621891#comment-12621891 ] 

Ben Kirby commented on AS7-1358:
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Chaps, this change doesn't appear to have made it into jboss-as master yet, as of now.

{{git blame transactions/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/txn/TransactionSubsystemAdd.java}} reveals Chris's commit, but the line to add the alias "java:/jboss/UserTransaction" is missing (despite showing up when you check {{git show 919c16e2}}).

Is this by design? If not, can we get it in?

> UserTransaction not available to non-EE threads
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AS7-1358
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-1358
>             Project: Application Server 7
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: Transactions
>    Affects Versions: 7.0.0.Final
>            Reporter: Chris Lowe
>            Assignee: Jonathan Halliday
>             Fix For: 7.0.1.Final
>
>
> JBoss Seam offers Asynchronous behaviour for non-EJB environments using a Quartz dispatcher. Asynchronous behaviour may also make use of Seam's @Transactional marker to demarcate tx boundaries.
> Since testing one of our applications in AS7 I noticed Seam "could not discover transaction status" error messages reported as our application ran async sections of code.
> Examining the Seam code, I could see that Seam would make two attempts to access a JNDI UserTransaction resource:
> 1 - context.lookup("java:comp/UserTransaction");
> If an NameNotFoundException is thrown, then attempt:
> 2 - context.lookup("UserTransaction");
> Under AS6 and below, the latter attempt would succeed.  Under AS7 attempts are currently failing.
> While looking into this issue I came across the following developer discussion which suggests that it might be possible to add a "java:/jboss/UserTransaction" resource:
> http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/jboss-as7-dev/2011-June/002298.html
> Further discussion on my AS7 user forum thread lead to the suggestion that I myself might add this behaviour.
> I have followed the implementation hints and light testing has been successful (with appropriate mods to Seam to use the new resource name).  I aim to perform some more thorough testing on this shortly and submit a patch against this issue.

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