The recents
questions posted by James Cook got me thinking. Maybe we should ditch the
current entity locking scheme in favor of using <select-for-update>.
It would greatly simplify the entity/cache locking mechanism, thus probably
making it much more robust than it currently is. Of course, we'd have to
improve select-for-update so that it worked across a greater range of databases
and keep the old entity/cache locking for databases that didn't. Also,
what about BMP? Does the spec allow for the container to pass on
synchronization responsibities to the Bean Developer? I'll have to
check.
Bill
