What is the JBoss Transactions?

JBoss Transactions is a rebadge of the Arjuna Transaction Service which supports high performance, high reliability transaction processing, compliant with JTA, JTS and Web Services standards.

Features

• Standards compliance

  • CORBA Object Transaction Service (OTS)

  • Java Enterprise (JEE) transactions

    • Java Transaction API (JTA)

    • Java Transaction Service (JTS)

  • Web services transactions

    • Web Services Coordination (WS-Coordination)

    • Web Services Atomic Transaction (WS-AtomicTransaction)

    • Web Services Business Activity Framework (WS-BusinessActivity)

• JEE and CORBA transactioning features including

  • Complete distributed transaction support

  • Automated failure recovery system

  • Support for both checked and unchecked transaction behaviour

  • Support for both flat and nested transaction models, with nested-aware resources and resource adapters

• Web services transactioning features including

  • Reliable coordination and application data consistency for business processes that involve Web services.

  • Supports transaction models for both intra-enterprise (EAI) and inter-enterprise (supply chain) Web services integration.

Getting involved

Do you want to be a JBoss Transactions committer? Take a look at the currently outstanding tasks in JIRA

Development

JBoss Transactions development notes

Recovery

If you want to learn about the recovery capabilities of JBossTS, then check out

• JBossTSRecovery
• JBossTSRecoveryInAS

Documentation

• How to choose which version to use

• Project page - links to downloads, docs etc.
• Distributed transactions in JBoss.

Configuration

• How to enable multiple one-phase aware participants

• Spring framework integration

Hints and Tips

• Multiple threads warning

• Non-Serializable XAResource warning

• Multiple one-phase resources

• Disk Full Warn Message

• The transaction is not active warning

• What is XA and how does it work?
• Could not enlist in transaction warning
• More on transaction recovery in JBossAS and configuration.

Forums

• Bug Reports, Change Notes and RoadMap to find solved problems, known issues or report new problems

DevTools

• Eclipse

• IntelliJ IDEA

• JProfiler

Authors

• Mark Little, Development Manager.

• Jonathan Halliday, Project Lead.

• Andrew Dinn, Web Services Transactions.

• Michael Musgrove, EJB, Blacktie.