Been reading JTA...
Rickard �berg wrote:
> > 3) XAResource is associated with connection
>
> Through XAResource.start(), yes.
>
> > 4) XAResource is registered with TransactionManager (seems to be via
> > Transaction.enlistResource)
>
> Yup.
>
> > 5) TransactionManager calls start(...) on XAResource (not my problem)
>
> As in 3, although I think this *is* your problem. When a bean does
> "getConnection" you do start() and when it does "close()" you do end().
Forget this. You do enlistResource on Tx and it should so start/end
properly.
> IMHO the connection *should* be placed in pool after you call end() on
> it.
Pool calls delistResource, which in turn calls end(). end() is not
called by pool directly.
> > I'm really unsure about point #8. If the bean calls close() on
> > the connection, the JTA spec (3.4.2) seems to indicate that the connection
> > should be dissociated from the transaction, without ending the transaction
> > (does that imply a commit or rollback?
>
> ending tx -> commit or rollback, yes. Disassociation is done through
> "end()" call on XAResource.
.. by TM..
/Rickard
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