5 Replies Latest reply on Apr 23, 2009 4:55 PM by cpopetz

    transaction:ejb-transaction question

    rparree2

      Hi,



      The <transaction:ejb-transaction /> is placed in the components.xml file within the WEB-INF directory. Does this effect EJB behaviour? If so why is this declaration in the war file and not in a components.xml file within the ejb-jar file?


      tx.,


      Raphael



        • 1. Re: transaction:ejb-transaction question
          cpopetz

          It's main purpose is to make the seam-managed persistence context (SMPC) aware of transactions committed by the EJB container.  For example, if you call a method on a stateless session bean, and a jta transaction isn't in place, one will be created and when that method returns it will be committed.  The SMPC needs to know that, so that it can flush if necessary.


          The reason it lives in WEB-INF/components.xml is that its specific to seam, and WEB-INF/components.xml is how seam is configured.


          Turning it off won't keep your EJB transactions from completing, but it will possibly mean bad things for non-EJB components that use transactions, like the SMPC.


          -Clint

          • 2. Re: transaction:ejb-transaction question
            rparree2

            Clint,


            Thanks for the response. I guess what my problem is is that Seam configuration that applies to EJB, is placed within a configuration file of the WAR. Can you confirm that?


            Thanks,


            Raphael



            • 3. Re: transaction:ejb-transaction question
              cpopetz

              Yes, it is by convention placed in seam's components.xml in WEB-INF in the war, because seam has to have a WAR in order to bootstrap, and so that's the default place for configuration specific to seam.  It also would not make sense for this attribute to be placed in an EJB jar, because you can have multiple EJB jars in an EAR, and this transaction switch is global to the seam deployment, so there's no way to turn it off for one EJB and turn it on for another.  It essentially means this seam deployment listens for EJB transaction commits, and Seam can either listen or not.  Hence, it goes in seam's configuration file (in the WAR) and not in the EJB jar.


              -Clint

              • 4. Re: transaction:ejb-transaction question
                rparree2

                Clint,


                Thanks - seems like something i have to get used to, configuring your application tier from your presentation tier:



                <component name="mybean">
                        <property name="someprop">some value</property>
                </component>



                Thanks again(!)


                Raphael






                • 5. Re: transaction:ejb-transaction question
                  cpopetz

                  I don't think of the WAR as the presentation tier, and seam certainly is not a strict presentation-tier technology.  The war is just a packaging standard, which is used the world over to hold all kinds of layers, regardless of how they're named :)