Hello Apache friends :) I have a question about the JTA and JMS/RA specs: If you borrow something from a RA, like a JMS Connection, and you're in XA Transaction, is it necessary to call connection.close()? It would seem JTA should be smart enough to know the connection is enrolled for 2 phase commit and should be smart enough to close it, but I'm not sure if that's part of the spec.
In TomEE 7.0.6 we're noticing that if you borrow a JMS Connection with connectionFactory.createConnection(), and your code fails to call close() before the transaction completion, the connection leaks. (And unfortunately, calling close() after the transaction completes doesn't mitigate the problem). It took awhile for us to track this down. This becomes a huge problem if you're calling external services in your transaction. Let's say you have a reasonable transaction timeout of 30s set. You call three services, and they end up taking 15s a piece. Even if you're doing the right thing and you have connection.close() in a finally block, because your transaction isn't active when you call close, it leaks and it just gets "stuck" as an active connection, which eventually you hit the pool limit and your app freezes. On a separate note, we noticed if you open a connection outside of the scope of a transaction, then start a transaction, then create a session with session_transacted option, the session does not participate in the JTA (which seems out of spec). One most open the connection inside the transaction, AND open the session in the transaction, and close the connection in the transaction for everything to work. I'll get a reproducing project created, but I was curious if anyone knew offhand what the spec says. cheers, and thanks, -[the other] Jonathan -- Jonathan | exabr...@gmail.com Pessimists, see a jar as half empty. Optimists, in contrast, see it as half full. Engineers, of course, understand the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
