Bug fixing - JavaSpace and Transaction issue

[Patricia Shanahan]

Test com/sun/jini/test/impl/outrigger/leasing/UseTxnMgrSpaceLeaseTest.td 
complains because a JavaSpace lets it go on using a Transaction for 
writes after the Transaction's lease has expired.

The JavaSpace implementation, com.sun.jini.outrigger.OutriggerServerImpl 
joins and caches the Transaction the first time it is asked to do an 
operation with it. It does not repeat the join, or any other Transaction 
operation, when doing another write for a Transaction is has already 
joined, so it does not find out about the Transaction's lease termination.

I have tentatively reached the conclusion that the Outrigger 
implementation is reasonable. If the JavaSpace caller wants to know 
whether the transaction is still active, the caller can itself do a 
getState() test. There is no reason to force the equivalent of a 
getState() at each JavaSpace write for the transaction.

In normal use, the caller will issue a limited number of operations 
associated with the transaction, and then do a commit or abort. The 
lease should be long enough that there is a high probability of 
finishing those operations within the lease time. At the time of the 
commit or abort, it will get an UnknownTransactionException if the 
transaction has been discarded due to lease expiration. The caller 
cannot be sure the operations will take effect until a successful commit.

I think the failing test requires something that is neither specified 
nor logically necessary, and propose deleting it from the test program.

Any opinions?

Patricia