JTA requirement?

[tvigil]

I've seen a lot of conflicting information as to whether the use of JBossCache in a clustered enviroment requires a JTA provider? I would think you'd need one since I don't know how else cache changes could be rolled back on multiple jvms without JTA. Just want to be sure.

[belaban]

You don't. But then you don't have atomic updates

[tvigil]

Ok thanks, that's what I thought.

I'm using Hibernate and Tomcat. So that means I need to get an XA connection pool configured and use it with a JTA provider like JOTM.

I've seen a lot of references to doing this with JBoss but not much when it's just Tomcat - just bits and pieces here and there. Anyone know of a good resource? If not, maybe I'll post a guide when I'm done.