How to get working ibatis within WebSphere JTA

[Alejandro Canales]

Hi all   We are using iBatis SQLMaps 2.1.15 on a WebSphere App Server 5.1. In the transaction manager section of the SQLMaps XML (configuration) file we need to qualify entirely the  JNDI name for the JTA User transaction in order to iBatis do a successful look in the JNDI tree:   <transactionManager type="JTA">                         <property name="UserTransaction" value="cell/nodes/localhost/servers/server1/jta/usertransaction"/>                         <dataSource type="JNDI">                                    <property name="DataSource" value="GMSEDS"/>                         </dataSource> </transactionManager>   The problem in websphere is that if we need to deploy this ear on another server (app server) we need to expand the ear file, modify the JNDI string for UserTransaction to set the servers name  in the sqlmaps file and repackage the ear. As you can imagine, this is not what we want. This problem seems to be a WebSphere issue, since in other application servers we usually use the JNDI name jnd/UserTransaction or so and everything works fine.   My question is: Did anybody know how to set the JNDI name for the user transaction without qualifying all the “cell/node…” stuff in WebSphere?   Thanks in advance. AC