JBossDeveloper

Fair enough. I checked all local bookshops (Hoggis Figgis, Waterstones)none of them had your book. Also Amazon.co.uk (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Java-Transaction-Processing-Design-Implementation/dp/013035290X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195120586&sr=8-1) are out stock.

Is this book still in print?

Thanks

Yes, I have ordered a copy.
I am just looking for a simple example which uses JTA locally without no App Server and no JNDI.

Something like this:

XADataSource ds = getOracleDataSource(); // call method to get DS
XAConnection xaConnection = ds.getXAConnection("usr", "pswd");

Connection con = xaConnection.getConnection();
Statement stmt = con.createStatement();

javax.transaction.UserTransaction ut = UserTransaction.userTransaction();
ut.begin();
stmt.executeUpdate("insert into TAddress (C, I, CITY) " +
 "VALUES (20 + ", " + 15 +
 ", 'LONDON')");
ut.commit();

An update on this:
My understanding is now:
1. The connections have to registered with arjuna TransactionalDriver in order to make them participate with any UserTransactions
2. There appears two ways of doing this
- firstly register the datasoure with JNDI
- secondly use a dynamic class (which is no longer recommended)

So my current understanding is, it is impossible to use *local* transactions without JNDI because I see no way of registering a DataSources with the TransactionalDriver without using JNDI.

I may take this in a separate thread - if that's ok?

Finally got this working this is what I did.

1. Configuring my application to use JNDI using the RmiRegistry. this is done by putting a jndi.properties file on my classpath and including the entries:

java.naming.factory.initial com.sun.jndi.rmi.registry.RegistryContextFactory
java.naming.provider.url rmi://localhost:1099

<property name="Context.java.naming.factory.initial" value="com.sun.jndi.rmi.registry.RegistryContextFactory"/>
<property name="Context.java.naming.provider.url" value="rmi://localhost:1099"/>

OracleXADataSource xaDS = new OracleXADataSource();
xaDS.setDataSourceName("Oracle");
xaDS.setURL("jdbc:oracle:thin:@XXXX:yyy:ora10g");

ctx = new InitialContext();
ctx.bind("jdbc/foo", xaDS);

TransactionalDriver arjunaDriver = new TransactionalDriver();
conn = arjunaDriver.connect("jdbc:arjuna:jdbc/foo",
 props);

UserTransaction.userTransaction().begin();

Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
stmt.executeUpdate("insert into TAddress (C, I, CITY) " +
 "VALUES (" + Address.CLASSID + ", " + 90000 +
 ", 'LONDON')");

UserTransaction.userTransaction().commit();

the only other mechanism is dynamic class loading which according to the programmers guide pg 31 is not recommended.

Also, in this posts you do not recommend using it:

1.
http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=96210
2.
http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=88103
Note - in this thread it says that support for Oracle 8 has been removed. So I can't see any other way for doing it for Oracle other than JNDI.
Regards