Jboss-jta + Hibernate with tomcat 5.x

[dharshanav]

Hi,

Is it possible to use Jboss JTA with tomcat 5.x? And if so are there any tutorials on that as I'm planning to use Tomcat + Hibernate + (JTA transactions if possible)

Thanks,
Dharshana

[marklittle]

It should be possible but we haven't tried it. Other people have integrated JBossTS and Tomcat in the past though.

[ccanning]

Do you know if anyone has described the process? If not, could you possibly give some pointers on where to start investigating how to do this?

[cvirko]

I am looking also for some JTA/JTS functionality in Tomcat+Hibernate. Did you have any luck finding some examples how to set it up?

Thanks

Tomas

[swch]

In order to add JBossTS as a JTA provider for Tomcat you need to create a custom UserTransactionFactory which implements javax.naming.spi.ObjectFactory and returns a com.arjuna.ats.jta.UserTransaction.userTransaction().
In your app context file, in the Context tag add something like this:

 <Resource name="UserTransaction" auth="Container"
 type="javax.transaction.UserTransaction"
 factory="com.yourpackage.UserTransactionFactory"/>

From you application code, ctx.lookup("java:comp/env/UserTransaction") should give you a UserTransaction instance.
As for Hibernate, see http://docs.jboss.org/jbossas/jboss4guide/r3/html/ch13.html, Using the hibernate objects.

Mircea