Hi,
I am having some interesting TX problems using JBoss 2.2.2. I have a
reasonably complex TX which does the following:
1. Find container entity A.
2. For container entity A assign all contained entities to container entity
B. (effectively an UPDATE operation on the contained entities table).
3. Delete container A.
To make this a little less abstract I have entities Phone and Phone
Collection. Sometimes I want to delete a Phone Collection but move the
Phones in that Phone Collection to another Phone Collection.
**To get to the problem:**
I update the variable in all of the Phone entities which assigns them to
Phone Collection that I am about to delete to the Phone Collection that I
want to re-assign to OK. I do some println s and they show that they now
point to the new Phone Collection. However when I do the remove() on the
the original Phone Collection I get a foreign key constraint violation.
I have tried using Oracle 8.1.5. as the back end and Postgresql 7.1. but
both give variations on the same problem.
One thing that I have tried to try to fix the problem is change the
transaction attribute on the method which changes which Phone Collection a
Phone points to and made it RequiresNew (the main TX has Requires). My
understanding is that this should cause the setPhoneCollection operation to
execute in it's own TX (effectively within - the main TX) and therefore
UPDATE the Phone database records before it tries to DELETE the Phone
Collection record (therefore removing the FK violation). All this does it
cause a deadlock until the TX times out.
Any help very greatfully received,
Ian.
