Re: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed transaction with oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does

2010-01-10 Thread ext2
If just reading  code of Geronimo , it's hard to understand sometimes. after
building a debug-able environment and tracking the source code of Geronimo
at run-time, things will be clearly.

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Sender: ext2 [mailto:x...@tongtech.com] 
Date: 2010/1/11 14:57
Receiver: user@geronimo.apache.org
Subject: Re: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed transaction with
oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does

>>I see that ManagedXAConnection will set autoCommit to false in
>>localTransactionStart(). So you mean Geronimo is enlisting the resouce
>>before it starts the local transaction?
>>I see ManagedXAConnection also sets autoCommit to true in
>>localTransactionCommit() and localTransactionRollback(), so it's not
>>only the cleanup() method.

While using JTA , the Geronimo do nothing with localTransaction; The
localTransaction only works when using in non-jta transaction. 

No matter the database 's driver support xa or no-xa, the data source can be
configured to use in jta transaction or in No-jta transaction;

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发件人: Jack Cai [mailto:greensi...@gmail.com] 
发送时间: 2010年1月11日 11:42
收件人: user@geronimo.apache.org
主题: Re: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed transaction with
oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does

I see that ManagedXAConnection will set autoCommit to false in
localTransactionStart(). So you mean Geronimo is enlisting the resouce
before it starts the local transaction?

I see ManagedXAConnection also sets autoCommit to true in
localTransactionCommit() and localTransactionRollback(), so it's not
only the cleanup() method.

-Jack

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:42 PM, ext2  wrote:
> Hi David Jeck:
>
> If the tranql's oracle wrapper is changed, the oracle will works well. And
> user  doesn't need write to a un-usual program at application level;
>
> Although I am still not agree to the Geronimo 's current action, but
anyway
> it's just another design strategy: now the database vendor has some
trivial
> difference , so the middle-ware (application-server) should has the
> responsible to shield the difference and always give a consistence
> appearance  to the end-user; That's the strategy I finally decide to use
in
> my work (it's not a app-server, but still provide jta features);
>
> Best regard
> Ext2
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> Sender: David Jencks [mailto:david_jen...@yahoo.com]
> Date: 2010-1-7 17:23
> Receiver: user@geronimo.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed transaction
with
> oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does
>
>
> On Jan 6, 2010, at 11:21 PM, ext2 wrote:
>
>> Hi, David Jeck:
>>
>> Sorry , I forget to said
>>> or, does the connection have to have auto commit set to true or set
>>> to
>>> false (which one)?
>> At the point of JTA's view, set auto commit has no other means, so
>> we need
>> not affect it and read it while using JTA; this works for most
>> database in
>> Geronimo, But oracle whose usage is different, only  because of a
>> bug of
>> tranql. At application level ,we can only to resole the bug in a un-
>> usual
>> way.
>
> As I said, I haven't read the spec in several years, but I think this
> is a bug in oracle.  My recollection is that the autocommit state is
> supposed to be ignored when enlisting in  a JTA transaction.  There
> are other oracle bugs related to autocommit, for instance the spec
> clearly says that (using local transactions) if autocommit is false,
> setting it to true should commit pending work, but oracle does not.
>
>>
>> Although setting auto commit has no other means in JTA, but this
>> doesn't
>> means the application-server has no responsible to check it.
>
> My recollection of the spec is that the app server has no need to
> check the autocommit state since enlisting in a jta transaction should
> cause the autocommit state to be ignored no matter what it is.
>
>> And that is
>> what I doest agree to Geronimo 's current action;
>
> We can probably fix this in the tranql oracle wrapper.  Geronimo
> doesn't even know that it's dealing with a jdbc driver, so it has no
> knowledge of the autocommit property's existence.
>
> thanks
> david jencks
>
>>
>> -Origin-
>> Sender: David Jencks [mailto:david_jen...@yahoo.com]
>> Date: 2010-1-7 2:03
>> Receiver: user@geronimo.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed
>> transaction with
>> oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does
>>
>>
>> On Jan 6, 2010, at 3:05 AM, ext2 wrote:
>>
>>> T

Re: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed transaction with oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does

2010-01-10 Thread Jack Cai
I see that ManagedXAConnection will set autoCommit to false in
localTransactionStart(). So you mean Geronimo is enlisting the resouce
before it starts the local transaction?

I see ManagedXAConnection also sets autoCommit to true in
localTransactionCommit() and localTransactionRollback(), so it's not
only the cleanup() method.

-Jack

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:42 PM, ext2  wrote:
> Hi David Jeck:
>
> If the tranql's oracle wrapper is changed, the oracle will works well. And
> user  doesn't need write to a un-usual program at application level;
>
> Although I am still not agree to the Geronimo 's current action, but anyway
> it's just another design strategy: now the database vendor has some trivial
> difference , so the middle-ware (application-server) should has the
> responsible to shield the difference and always give a consistence
> appearance  to the end-user; That's the strategy I finally decide to use in
> my work (it's not a app-server, but still provide jta features);
>
> Best regard
> Ext2
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> Sender: David Jencks [mailto:david_jen...@yahoo.com]
> Date: 2010-1-7 17:23
> Receiver: user@geronimo.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed transaction with
> oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does
>
>
> On Jan 6, 2010, at 11:21 PM, ext2 wrote:
>
>> Hi, David Jeck:
>>
>> Sorry , I forget to said
>>> or, does the connection have to have auto commit set to true or set
>>> to
>>> false (which one)?
>> At the point of JTA's view, set auto commit has no other means, so
>> we need
>> not affect it and read it while using JTA; this works for most
>> database in
>> Geronimo, But oracle whose usage is different, only  because of a
>> bug of
>> tranql. At application level ,we can only to resole the bug in a un-
>> usual
>> way.
>
> As I said, I haven't read the spec in several years, but I think this
> is a bug in oracle.  My recollection is that the autocommit state is
> supposed to be ignored when enlisting in  a JTA transaction.  There
> are other oracle bugs related to autocommit, for instance the spec
> clearly says that (using local transactions) if autocommit is false,
> setting it to true should commit pending work, but oracle does not.
>
>>
>> Although setting auto commit has no other means in JTA, but this
>> doesn't
>> means the application-server has no responsible to check it.
>
> My recollection of the spec is that the app server has no need to
> check the autocommit state since enlisting in a jta transaction should
> cause the autocommit state to be ignored no matter what it is.
>
>> And that is
>> what I doest agree to Geronimo 's current action;
>
> We can probably fix this in the tranql oracle wrapper.  Geronimo
> doesn't even know that it's dealing with a jdbc driver, so it has no
> knowledge of the autocommit property's existence.
>
> thanks
> david jencks
>
>>
>> -Origin-
>> Sender: David Jencks [mailto:david_jen...@yahoo.com]
>> Date: 2010-1-7 2:03
>> Receiver: user@geronimo.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed
>> transaction with
>> oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does
>>
>>
>> On Jan 6, 2010, at 3:05 AM, ext2 wrote:
>>
>>> The problem is caused by tranql-commons-connector is not compatible
>>> with
>>> Oracle 9i 's XA API.  The details things happened as following
>>> description.
>>>
>>> When the XA transaction finished, the ManagedXAConnection(tranql)
>>> will be
>>> cleanup and put back to the pool. While cleanup the
>>> ManagedXAConnection,
>>> tranql reset the associated physical connection 's auto commit to
>>> true.
>>> Because at this time, Transaction Manager has finished the XA
>>> transaction,
>>> so reset the commit to true will acceptable by Oralce's XA driver;
>>>
>>> So unfortunately this will cause  the XA resource cannot be enlist
>>> into
>>> transaction next time. and you can only execute the xa-transaction
>>> only
>>> once;
>>
>> It's been a long time since I looked into this, but if I remember the
>> spec correctly oracle's driver is not spec compliant here.  I'm not
>> sure I understand exactly what sequences of operations are allowed by
>> oracle and which are not.
>>
>> if you call setAutocommit on a connection, either true or false, does
>> that prevent the associated managed conne

Re: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed transaction with oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does

2010-01-07 Thread ext2
Hi David Jeck:

If the tranql's oracle wrapper is changed, the oracle will works well. And
user  doesn't need write to a un-usual program at application level;

Although I am still not agree to the Geronimo 's current action, but anyway
it's just another design strategy: now the database vendor has some trivial
difference , so the middle-ware (application-server) should has the
responsible to shield the difference and always give a consistence
appearance  to the end-user; That's the strategy I finally decide to use in
my work (it's not a app-server, but still provide jta features);

Best regard
Ext2
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Sender: David Jencks [mailto:david_jen...@yahoo.com] 
Date: 2010-1-7 17:23
Receiver: user@geronimo.apache.org
Subject: Re: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed transaction with
oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does


On Jan 6, 2010, at 11:21 PM, ext2 wrote:

> Hi, David Jeck:
>
> Sorry , I forget to said
>> or, does the connection have to have auto commit set to true or set  
>> to
>> false (which one)?
> At the point of JTA's view, set auto commit has no other means, so  
> we need
> not affect it and read it while using JTA; this works for most  
> database in
> Geronimo, But oracle whose usage is different, only  because of a  
> bug of
> tranql. At application level ,we can only to resole the bug in a un- 
> usual
> way.

As I said, I haven't read the spec in several years, but I think this  
is a bug in oracle.  My recollection is that the autocommit state is  
supposed to be ignored when enlisting in  a JTA transaction.  There  
are other oracle bugs related to autocommit, for instance the spec  
clearly says that (using local transactions) if autocommit is false,  
setting it to true should commit pending work, but oracle does not.

>
> Although setting auto commit has no other means in JTA, but this  
> doesn't
> means the application-server has no responsible to check it.

My recollection of the spec is that the app server has no need to  
check the autocommit state since enlisting in a jta transaction should  
cause the autocommit state to be ignored no matter what it is.

> And that is
> what I doest agree to Geronimo 's current action;

We can probably fix this in the tranql oracle wrapper.  Geronimo  
doesn't even know that it's dealing with a jdbc driver, so it has no  
knowledge of the autocommit property's existence.

thanks
david jencks

>
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> Sender: David Jencks [mailto:david_jen...@yahoo.com]
> Date: 2010-1-7 2:03
> Receiver: user@geronimo.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed  
> transaction with
> oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does
>
>
> On Jan 6, 2010, at 3:05 AM, ext2 wrote:
>
>> The problem is caused by tranql-commons-connector is not compatible
>> with
>> Oracle 9i 's XA API.  The details things happened as following
>> description.
>>
>> When the XA transaction finished, the ManagedXAConnection(tranql)
>> will be
>> cleanup and put back to the pool. While cleanup the
>> ManagedXAConnection,
>> tranql reset the associated physical connection 's auto commit to
>> true.
>> Because at this time, Transaction Manager has finished the XA
>> transaction,
>> so reset the commit to true will acceptable by Oralce's XA driver;
>>
>> So unfortunately this will cause  the XA resource cannot be enlist
>> into
>> transaction next time. and you can only execute the xa-transaction
>> only
>> once;
>
> It's been a long time since I looked into this, but if I remember the
> spec correctly oracle's driver is not spec compliant here.  I'm not
> sure I understand exactly what sequences of operations are allowed by
> oracle and which are not.
>
> if you call setAutocommit on a connection, either true or false, does
> that prevent the associated managed connection from ever being
> enlisted in an XA transaction?
>
> or, does the connection have to have autocommit set to true or set to
> false (which one)?
>
> I don't have an easy way to set up oracle here to investigate this for
> myself, I hope I'm asking my questions clearly enough to be  
> understood.
>
> thanks
> david jencks
>
>
>>
>> -Original -
>> Sender: xuhongbo [mailto:x...@tongtech.com]
>> Date: 2009-12-30 17:15
>> Receiver: user@geronimo.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: Reply: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed
>> transaction with oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish  
>> does
>>
>> Hi Jack Cai:
>>
>> I have tried, the "tranql-connector-oracl

Re: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed transaction with oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does

2010-01-07 Thread David Jencks


On Jan 6, 2010, at 11:21 PM, ext2 wrote:


Hi, David Jeck:

Sorry , I forget to said
or, does the connection have to have auto commit set to true or set  
to

false (which one)?
At the point of JTA's view, set auto commit has no other means, so  
we need
not affect it and read it while using JTA; this works for most  
database in
Geronimo, But oracle whose usage is different, only  because of a  
bug of
tranql. At application level ,we can only to resole the bug in a un- 
usual

way.


As I said, I haven't read the spec in several years, but I think this  
is a bug in oracle.  My recollection is that the autocommit state is  
supposed to be ignored when enlisting in  a JTA transaction.  There  
are other oracle bugs related to autocommit, for instance the spec  
clearly says that (using local transactions) if autocommit is false,  
setting it to true should commit pending work, but oracle does not.




Although setting auto commit has no other means in JTA, but this  
doesn't

means the application-server has no responsible to check it.


My recollection of the spec is that the app server has no need to  
check the autocommit state since enlisting in a jta transaction should  
cause the autocommit state to be ignored no matter what it is.



And that is
what I doest agree to Geronimo 's current action;


We can probably fix this in the tranql oracle wrapper.  Geronimo  
doesn't even know that it's dealing with a jdbc driver, so it has no  
knowledge of the autocommit property's existence.


thanks
david jencks



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Sender: David Jencks [mailto:david_jen...@yahoo.com]
Date: 2010-1-7 2:03
Receiver: user@geronimo.apache.org
Subject: Re: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed  
transaction with

oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does


On Jan 6, 2010, at 3:05 AM, ext2 wrote:


The problem is caused by tranql-commons-connector is not compatible
with
Oracle 9i 's XA API.  The details things happened as following
description.

When the XA transaction finished, the ManagedXAConnection(tranql)
will be
cleanup and put back to the pool. While cleanup the
ManagedXAConnection,
tranql reset the associated physical connection 's auto commit to
true.
Because at this time, Transaction Manager has finished the XA
transaction,
so reset the commit to true will acceptable by Oralce's XA driver;

So unfortunately this will cause  the XA resource cannot be enlist
into
transaction next time. and you can only execute the xa-transaction
only
once;


It's been a long time since I looked into this, but if I remember the
spec correctly oracle's driver is not spec compliant here.  I'm not
sure I understand exactly what sequences of operations are allowed by
oracle and which are not.

if you call setAutocommit on a connection, either true or false, does
that prevent the associated managed connection from ever being
enlisted in an XA transaction?

or, does the connection have to have autocommit set to true or set to
false (which one)?

I don't have an easy way to set up oracle here to investigate this for
myself, I hope I'm asking my questions clearly enough to be  
understood.


thanks
david jencks




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Sender: xuhongbo [mailto:x...@tongtech.com]
Date: 2009-12-30 17:15
Receiver: user@geronimo.apache.org
Subject: Re: Reply: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed
transaction with oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish  
does


Hi Jack Cai:

I have tried, the "tranql-connector-oracle-local" is ok, but it
doesn't use
xa transaction in jta, and use a faked Local-XAResource instead of
real
oracle-xa-resource;

I  am sorry to mis-understand your means and give the run-time class
name in
my previous reply;  The error occurred program is just using "
tranql-connector-oracle-xa"

Additionally, I have try another Mysql database and using "
tranql-connector-mysql-xa" do real xa transaction. It works well.

So my mind changed, maybe there is something not compatible with
oracle 9i
database; In my original mail, I have post a very simple program
which use
the Geronimo Transaction Manager and Oracle XA API directly, this
works
well;

Because tranql resource adaptor is a very simple wrapper , Geronimo
does
additional things to wrap the database connection (etc control
pooling,
xa-resource wrap, xa-resource cache for transaction-manager ...) ,
so I am
wondering if there is some other un-excepted database operation has
been
done and cause this problem? for convenience I post the simple  
program

again.

If  we only concern database operation, does this simple program done
exactly like the Geronimo done ? Or it doesn't , Geronimo do
additional
things... maybe the difference will be the real reason cause the
problem;
I have tracked at runtime, but unfortunately has not find some
difference
yet...

Thanks a lot
xuhongbo


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sender: Jack Cai [mail

Re: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed transaction with oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does

2010-01-06 Thread ext2
Hi, David Jeck:

Sorry , I forget to said
>or, does the connection have to have auto commit set to true or set to  
>false (which one)?
At the point of JTA's view, set auto commit has no other means, so we need
not affect it and read it while using JTA; this works for most database in
Geronimo, But oracle whose usage is different, only  because of a bug of
tranql. At application level ,we can only to resole the bug in a un-usual
way.

Although setting auto commit has no other means in JTA, but this doesn't
means the application-server has no responsible to check it. And that is
what I doest agree to Geronimo 's current action;

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Sender: David Jencks [mailto:david_jen...@yahoo.com] 
Date: 2010-1-7 2:03
Receiver: user@geronimo.apache.org
Subject: Re: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed transaction with
oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does


On Jan 6, 2010, at 3:05 AM, ext2 wrote:

> The problem is caused by tranql-commons-connector is not compatible  
> with
> Oracle 9i 's XA API.  The details things happened as following  
> description.
>
> When the XA transaction finished, the ManagedXAConnection(tranql)  
> will be
> cleanup and put back to the pool. While cleanup the  
> ManagedXAConnection,
> tranql reset the associated physical connection 's auto commit to  
> true.
> Because at this time, Transaction Manager has finished the XA  
> transaction,
> so reset the commit to true will acceptable by Oralce's XA driver;
>
> So unfortunately this will cause  the XA resource cannot be enlist  
> into
> transaction next time. and you can only execute the xa-transaction  
> only
> once;

It's been a long time since I looked into this, but if I remember the  
spec correctly oracle's driver is not spec compliant here.  I'm not  
sure I understand exactly what sequences of operations are allowed by  
oracle and which are not.

if you call setAutocommit on a connection, either true or false, does  
that prevent the associated managed connection from ever being  
enlisted in an XA transaction?

or, does the connection have to have autocommit set to true or set to  
false (which one)?

I don't have an easy way to set up oracle here to investigate this for  
myself, I hope I'm asking my questions clearly enough to be understood.

thanks
david jencks


>
> -Original -
> Sender: xuhongbo [mailto:x...@tongtech.com]
> Date: 2009-12-30 17:15
> Receiver: user@geronimo.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Reply: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed
> transaction with oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does
>
> Hi Jack Cai:
>
> I have tried, the "tranql-connector-oracle-local" is ok, but it  
> doesn't use
> xa transaction in jta, and use a faked Local-XAResource instead of  
> real
> oracle-xa-resource;
>
> I  am sorry to mis-understand your means and give the run-time class  
> name in
> my previous reply;  The error occurred program is just using "
> tranql-connector-oracle-xa"
>
> Additionally, I have try another Mysql database and using "
> tranql-connector-mysql-xa" do real xa transaction. It works well.
>
> So my mind changed, maybe there is something not compatible with  
> oracle 9i
> database; In my original mail, I have post a very simple program  
> which use
> the Geronimo Transaction Manager and Oracle XA API directly, this  
> works
> well;
>
> Because tranql resource adaptor is a very simple wrapper , Geronimo  
> does
> additional things to wrap the database connection (etc control  
> pooling,
> xa-resource wrap, xa-resource cache for transaction-manager ...) ,  
> so I am
> wondering if there is some other un-excepted database operation has  
> been
> done and cause this problem? for convenience I post the simple program
> again.
>
> If  we only concern database operation, does this simple program done
> exactly like the Geronimo done ? Or it doesn't , Geronimo do  
> additional
> things... maybe the difference will be the real reason cause the  
> problem;
> I have tracked at runtime, but unfortunately has not find some  
> difference
> yet...
>
> Thanks a lot
> xuhongbo
>
>
> -origin-
> sender: Jack Cai [mailto:greensi...@gmail.com]
> date: 2009/12/30 11:45
> receiver: user@geronimo.apache.org
> subject: Re: Reply: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed
> transaction with oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does
>
> Can you try to use the tranql-connector-oracle-xa or
> tranql-connector-oracle-local to do the test?
>
> -Jack
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:26 AM, xuhongbo  wrote:
>>
>>>> In the future it would be great if you could 

Re: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed transaction with oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does

2010-01-06 Thread ext2
>It's been a long time since I looked into this, but if I remember the  
>spec correctly oracle's driver is not spec compliant here.  I'm not  
>sure I understand exactly what sequences of operations are allowed by  
>oracle and which are not.

I am not sure about the spec you said is which one, If you means X/Open, in
my test result until now, I haven't find anything which is not compliant. If
you means JTA spec, the sequence is true different, but this not the oracle
driver itself caused but tranql caused.At following , I illustrate it more
details. The right sequence for oracle program in Geronimo must be :

1)Get connection from datasource
2) Set connection auto commit to false; //you must reset the auto-commit
status to false. As tranql will force the connection auto-commit to true
when JTA finished and cause enlist error;
3)usertransaction.begin
...do some thing...
4)Usertransaction end (commit or rollback)
5)Connection.close() // step 4,5 's sequence doesn't matter. But any how
when the 2 step both finished. The Managed Connection will be clean up to
release registered listener and prepare for put back into database pool. But
unfortunately , tranql will force auto-commit status to true when cleanup;

>if you call setAutocommit on a connection, either true or false, does  
>that prevent the associated managed connection from ever being  
>enlisted in an XA transaction?
Change the wrapped connection's auto-commit status will affect the
underlying physical connection's auto-commit status; but if we only concern
about oracle-xa , it will cause different exception occurred, and it's not
real-reason cause enlist error; (real reason is tranql's cleanup, I have
mentioned, you can see source code of tranql : org.tranql.connector.jdbc.
ManagedXAConnection.cleanup());

But if we concern other database, the Geronimo 's current action for set
auto-commit maybe cause other bad things: if end-user mis-used set
auto-commit, the program may or may not be work right, all dependency on
database vendor; 

for example the two database oracle and mysql I have test. While using
oracle, set auto-commit to false is always acceptable ,  but when setting it
to true , oracle driver will check : if the xa-resource is enlist in global
transaction, oracle will throw error; if xa-resource is not enlist in global
transaction, oracle will accept it ; But before enlist oracle xa resource,
we must make sure it's auto commit must be false; While mysql doesn't care
it, that's to say: not matter set to true or false, no matter in or outside
jta transaction. It doesn't care. Things will always be right;


>or, does the connection have to have auto commit set to true or set to  
>false (which one)?
It's purely dependent on the database vendor , if Geronimo doesn't change;

By the way , I thing the Geronimo and tranql should do additional things to
enhance JTA using XA:
 1: When using XA Datasource in JTA Transaction, if end-user set auto commit
status , Geronimo must always check it itself, but not directly dependent on
database driver , that is : if set to true, Geronimo will always report
error, if set to false, Geronimo will always omit; 

2) Tranql 's oracle xa driver should changed to make sure the underlying
connection's auto-commit status must  be false before enlist XAResource, or
never change the auto-commit status and left it be default value 

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Sender: David Jencks [mailto:david_jen...@yahoo.com] 
Date: 2010-1-7 2:03
Receiver: user@geronimo.apache.org
Subject: Re: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed transaction with
oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does


On Jan 6, 2010, at 3:05 AM, ext2 wrote:

> The problem is caused by tranql-commons-connector is not compatible  
> with
> Oracle 9i 's XA API.  The details things happened as following  
> description.
>
> When the XA transaction finished, the ManagedXAConnection(tranql)  
> will be
> cleanup and put back to the pool. While cleanup the  
> ManagedXAConnection,
> tranql reset the associated physical connection 's auto commit to  
> true.
> Because at this time, Transaction Manager has finished the XA  
> transaction,
> so reset the commit to true will acceptable by Oralce's XA driver;
>
> So unfortunately this will cause  the XA resource cannot be enlist  
> into
> transaction next time. and you can only execute the xa-transaction  
> only
> once;

It's been a long time since I looked into this, but if I remember the  
spec correctly oracle's driver is not spec compliant here.  I'm not  
sure I understand exactly what sequences of operations are allowed by  
oracle and which are not.

if you call setAutocommit on a connection, either true or false, does  
that prevent the associated managed connection from ever being  

Re: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed transaction with oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does

2010-01-06 Thread David Jencks


On Jan 6, 2010, at 3:05 AM, ext2 wrote:

The problem is caused by tranql-commons-connector is not compatible  
with
Oracle 9i 's XA API.  The details things happened as following  
description.


When the XA transaction finished, the ManagedXAConnection(tranql)  
will be
cleanup and put back to the pool. While cleanup the  
ManagedXAConnection,
tranql reset the associated physical connection 's auto commit to  
true.
Because at this time, Transaction Manager has finished the XA  
transaction,

so reset the commit to true will acceptable by Oralce's XA driver;

So unfortunately this will cause  the XA resource cannot be enlist  
into
transaction next time. and you can only execute the xa-transaction  
only

once;


It's been a long time since I looked into this, but if I remember the  
spec correctly oracle's driver is not spec compliant here.  I'm not  
sure I understand exactly what sequences of operations are allowed by  
oracle and which are not.


if you call setAutocommit on a connection, either true or false, does  
that prevent the associated managed connection from ever being  
enlisted in an XA transaction?


or, does the connection have to have autocommit set to true or set to  
false (which one)?


I don't have an easy way to set up oracle here to investigate this for  
myself, I hope I'm asking my questions clearly enough to be understood.


thanks
david jencks




-Original -
Sender: xuhongbo [mailto:x...@tongtech.com]
Date: 2009-12-30 17:15
Receiver: user@geronimo.apache.org
Subject: Re: Reply: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed
transaction with oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does

Hi Jack Cai:

I have tried, the "tranql-connector-oracle-local" is ok, but it  
doesn’t use
xa transaction in jta, and use a faked Local-XAResource instead of  
real

oracle-xa-resource;

I  am sorry to mis-understand your means and give the run-time class  
name in

my previous reply;  The error occurred program is just using "
tranql-connector-oracle-xa"

Additionally, I have try another Mysql database and using "
tranql-connector-mysql-xa" do real xa transaction. It works well.

So my mind changed, maybe there is something not compatible with  
oracle 9i
database; In my original mail, I have post a very simple program  
which use
the Geronimo Transaction Manager and Oracle XA API directly, this  
works

well;

Because tranql resource adaptor is a very simple wrapper , Geronimo  
does
additional things to wrap the database connection (etc control  
pooling,
xa-resource wrap, xa-resource cache for transaction-manager ...) ,  
so I am
wondering if there is some other un-excepted database operation has  
been

done and cause this problem? for convenience I post the simple program
again.

If  we only concern database operation, does this simple program done
exactly like the Geronimo done ? Or it doesn't , Geronimo do  
additional
things... maybe the difference will be the real reason cause the  
problem;
I have tracked at runtime, but unfortunately has not find some  
difference

yet...

Thanks a lot
xuhongbo


-origin-
sender: Jack Cai [mailto:greensi...@gmail.com]
date: 2009/12/30 11:45
receiver: user@geronimo.apache.org
subject: Re: Reply: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed
transaction with oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does

Can you try to use the tranql-connector-oracle-xa or
tranql-connector-oracle-local to do the test?

-Jack

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:26 AM, xuhongbo  wrote:


In the future it would be great if you could only post to one  
mailing

list.

Thanks, I know


I'm not sure what is wrong yet, however you should never try to set
the autocommit state of a connection that is enlisted in a jta
transaction.  Enlisting and delisting the XAConnection will  
result in

the autocommit being dealt with properly.  The value from
getAutoCommit may or may not be meaningful in a jta transaction.
Outside a jta transaction the autocommit state defaults to true.   
I'm

quite surprised you didn't get a more informative error.


Yes you are right, auto commit has no means for jta connection and  
cannot

be
set to true; here I just set auto commit to false, so a jta  
connection

should just omit it;
But the surprise thing is if I doesn't affect auto commit state(in  
the
program, just comment the statement "setAutocommit(false)"), when  
execute
database operation,  a "ORA-02089: COMMIT ..." exception  will be  
throwed

by
oracle's database driver; it looks like the Geronimo does a wrong  
things

"commit on the connection when execute database operation"; and this

should
only occurs on non-jta connection, because only no-jta connection  
will set

auto commit default to true.


One important piece of information that I don't see is which tranql
wrapper you used to deploy your datasource.


The datasource  is org.tranql.connector.jdbc.DataSource. And it  
use  a  a
managed-connection factory " org.tranql.connector.oracle.XAMCF" to  
ope

Re: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed transaction with oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does

2010-01-06 Thread ext2
The problem is caused by tranql-commons-connector is not compatible with
Oracle 9i 's XA API.  The details things happened as following description.

When the XA transaction finished, the ManagedXAConnection(tranql) will be
cleanup and put back to the pool. While cleanup the ManagedXAConnection,
tranql reset the associated physical connection 's auto commit to true. 
Because at this time, Transaction Manager has finished the XA transaction,
so reset the commit to true will acceptable by Oralce's XA driver;

So unfortunately this will cause  the XA resource cannot be enlist into
transaction next time. and you can only execute the xa-transaction only
once;

-Original -
Sender: xuhongbo [mailto:x...@tongtech.com] 
Date: 2009-12-30 17:15
Receiver: user@geronimo.apache.org
Subject: Re: Reply: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed
transaction with oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does

Hi Jack Cai:

I have tried, the "tranql-connector-oracle-local" is ok, but it doesn’t use
xa transaction in jta, and use a faked Local-XAResource instead of real
oracle-xa-resource;

I  am sorry to mis-understand your means and give the run-time class name in
my previous reply;  The error occurred program is just using "
tranql-connector-oracle-xa"

Additionally, I have try another Mysql database and using "
tranql-connector-mysql-xa" do real xa transaction. It works well. 

So my mind changed, maybe there is something not compatible with oracle 9i
database; In my original mail, I have post a very simple program which use
the Geronimo Transaction Manager and Oracle XA API directly, this works
well; 

Because tranql resource adaptor is a very simple wrapper , Geronimo does
additional things to wrap the database connection (etc control pooling,
xa-resource wrap, xa-resource cache for transaction-manager ...) , so I am
wondering if there is some other un-excepted database operation has been
done and cause this problem? for convenience I post the simple program
again. 
 
If  we only concern database operation, does this simple program done
exactly like the Geronimo done ? Or it doesn't , Geronimo do additional
things... maybe the difference will be the real reason cause the problem;
I have tracked at runtime, but unfortunately has not find some difference
yet...

Thanks a lot 
xuhongbo


-origin-
sender: Jack Cai [mailto:greensi...@gmail.com] 
date: 2009/12/30 11:45
receiver: user@geronimo.apache.org
subject: Re: Reply: Cannot using Geronimo to execute bean-managed
transaction with oracle transaction more than once, but Glassfish does

Can you try to use the tranql-connector-oracle-xa or
tranql-connector-oracle-local to do the test?

-Jack

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:26 AM, xuhongbo  wrote:
>
>>>In the future it would be great if you could only post to one mailing
>>>list.
> Thanks, I know
>
>>>I'm not sure what is wrong yet, however you should never try to set
>>>the autocommit state of a connection that is enlisted in a jta
>>>transaction.  Enlisting and delisting the XAConnection will result in
>>>the autocommit being dealt with properly.  The value from
>>>getAutoCommit may or may not be meaningful in a jta transaction.
>>>Outside a jta transaction the autocommit state defaults to true.  I'm
>>>quite surprised you didn't get a more informative error.
>
> Yes you are right, auto commit has no means for jta connection and cannot
be
> set to true; here I just set auto commit to false, so a jta connection
> should just omit it;
> But the surprise thing is if I doesn't affect auto commit state(in the
> program, just comment the statement "setAutocommit(false)"), when execute
> database operation,  a "ORA-02089: COMMIT ..." exception  will be throwed
by
> oracle's database driver; it looks like the Geronimo does a wrong things
> "commit on the connection when execute database operation"; and this
should
> only occurs on non-jta connection, because only no-jta connection will set
> auto commit default to true.
>
>>>One important piece of information that I don't see is which tranql
>>>wrapper you used to deploy your datasource.
>
> The datasource  is org.tranql.connector.jdbc.DataSource. And it use  a  a
> managed-connection factory " org.tranql.connector.oracle.XAMCF" to open
> connection; And the managed-connection factory use a oracle's xa
datasource
> (oracle.jdbc.xa.client.OracleXADataSource);
>
> By the way , I haven't ever post a trivial problem I have meet when I
deploy
> the Oracle-XA data source. The trivial thing is: I must change the deploy
> plan created by Geronimo's web manage console tools,   delete the empty
> property "TNSEntryName" and manually deploy it; because this is the
oracle9i
> database driver's question --- "a empty string value(not a null value) set
> to TNSEntryName" will cause oracle9i's database driver to omit the other
> property (etc serverName, serviceName ...) and cannot establish a connect
;
> I thinks this should have no means to the transaction commit failure;