Thanks for the info. I looked into Spec and got a very vague idea of what's
happening here. Let me test these scenarios with some samples and understand
what's happening.

Thanks
Phani

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:35 PM, David Jencks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> I looked in the spec a bit and am not sure I understand how all the parts
> are meshing, maybe david blevins can chime in...   I think that you've
> specified contradictory information and maybe we should be complaining
> rather than supplying a container managed jta EntityManager.
> I _think_ that your annotation-injected EntityManager has to be container
> managed and hence jta.
> I _think_ that if you want a resource-local EntityManager you have to
> inject the EMF with a PersistenceUnit annotation and get the EntityManager
> yourself.
>
> In the spec, section 5.6 starts:
> Whenacontainer-managedentitymanager isused, thelifecycleof
> thepersistencecontext isalways
> managedautomatically, transparentlytotheapplication,
> andthepersistencecontextispropagatedwith
> the JTA transaction.
>
>
> I think this means that with your @PersistenceContext annotation, you are
> definitely going to get a tx-type=JTA EM.  Since you specified
> RESOURCE_LOCAL in the persistence.xml I think we should perhaps be
> objecting.
>
> I also think this means that you need an application managed persistence
> context to get RESOURCE_LOCAL.  There are a bunch of examples in section 5.7
> that all use @PersistenceUnit.
>
> Also hoping for clarification....
> david jencks
>
> On Jun 9, 2008, at 1:43 AM, Phani Madgula wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have tried to play with <jta-datasource> and <non-jta-datasource> as
> follows.
>
> I have the following peristence.xml in a web application.
> ***********
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence";
>    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
>    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence
> http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_1_0.xsd";
> version="1.0">
>
>    <!-- Tutorial "unit" -->
>    <persistence-unit name="Tutorial" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
>
>    <provider>org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceProviderImpl</provider>
>    <non-jta-data-source>ProductDS-nonJTA</non-jta-data-source>
>    <mapping-file>orm.xml</mapping-file>
>    <class>samples.jpa.Product</class>
>    <class>samples.jpa.Book</class>
>
>    </persistence-unit>
>
> </persistence>
>
> ***********
>
> In the servlet, I have the following code
>
> ***********
> @PersistenceContext(unitName="Tutorial")
>   private EntityManager em;
> .....
> ....
>  UserTransaction ut;
>  try{
>  Context ctx = new InitialContext();
>
>  //ut = (UserTransaction)ctx.lookup("java:comp/UserTransaction");
>  //ut.begin();
>
>  //EntityTransaction et = em.getTransaction();
>  //et.begin();
>
>  Book book = new Book("DDDDD","John",1.0,"Joe","1934834-23823","Phani");
>  em.persist(book);
>
>  //et.commit();
>  //ut.commit();
>
>  }catch(Exception e){
>  e.printStackTrace();
>  throw new ServletException (e);
>  }
> ***********************
>
> 1. When I hit the servlet, I get the following error.
>
>   ***********************
>   javax.persistence.TransactionRequiredException : No Active transaction
>   ***********************
>
> 2. Suppose I have the following code in the servlet
>    **********************
> ***********
> @PersistenceContext(unitName="Tutorial")
>   private EntityManager em;
> .....
> ....
>  UserTransaction ut;
>  try{
>  Context ctx = new InitialContext();
>
>  //ut = (UserTransaction)ctx.lookup("java:comp/UserTransaction");
>  //ut.begin();
>
> //Uncomment EntityTransaction
>  EntityTransaction et = em.getTransaction();
>  et.begin();
>
>  Book book = new Book("DDDDD","John",1.0,"Joe","1934834-23823","Phani");
>  em.persist(book);
>
>         et.commit();
>  //ut.commit();
>
>  }catch(Exception e){
>  e.printStackTrace();
>  throw new ServletException (e);
>  }
>  ***********************
>  I get the following error
>  ***********************
>
>  java.lang.IllegalStateException : You can not call getTransaction on
> a container managed EntityManager
>
>  *************************
>
> 3. Only if I use JTA API, I am able to get the entity persisted
> properly as below.
> ***************************
> @PersistenceContext(unitName="Tutorial")
>   private EntityManager em;
> .....
> ....
>  UserTransaction ut;
>  try{
>  Context ctx = new InitialContext();
>
>  ut = (UserTransaction)ctx.lookup("java:comp/UserTransaction");
>  ut.begin();
>
>
>  Book book = new Book("DDDDD","John",1.0,"Joe","1934834-23823","Phani");
>  em.persist(book);
>
>
>  ut.commit();
>
>  }catch(Exception e){
>  e.printStackTrace();
>  throw new ServletException (e);
>  }
> ****************************
>
> Please note that I am using "RESOURCE_LOCAL" persistence unit. I also
> used <non-jta-datasource>. I deployed the database pool with
> </no-transaction> tag in the connector deployment plan.
>
> My questions are
>
> 1. Should we always use UserTransaction object irrespective of
> <jta-datasource> or <non-jta-datasource> in JEE environment??
>
> 2. How is the use of <non-jta-datsource> different from the use
> <jta-datasource> in JEE environment??
>
> 3. In EJBs, when ContainerManaged Transactions are used, there is no
> need to use JTA. Is that correct??
>
> 4. Only in J2SE environments, we can use EntityTransaction object. is
> that correct??
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Phani
>
> On 5/28/08, David Jencks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 1. I hope you named the file openejb-jar.xml
>
> 2. jta-datasource and non-jta-datasource have to contain the names of
>
> the datasources in the geronimo plan used for the pool, NOT some jndi
>
> name you might also map them to.  The datasources don't need to be
>
> bound in jndi in order to be used for jpa
>
> 3. The non-jta-datasource must be a datasource that really has no
>
> transaction support, using the <no-transaction/> element instead of
>
> <local-transaction/> or <xa-transaction>... in the connector plan.
>
> With derby I find it necessary to have a non-jta-datasource if any ddl
>
> is needed or if openjpa is generating the primary keys.  I don't know
>
> if you can get away without one for other databases.  If you want to
>
> experiment, leave out the non-jta-datasource rather than duplicating
>
> the jta-datasource contents.
>
>
> hope this helps
>
> david jencks
>
>
> On May 27, 2008, at 4:09 PM, zeros wrote:
>
>
>
> Good evening:
>
>
>   I'm newbie with EJB3.0. I want to configure the persistence.xml
>
> to have
>
> entities managed with JPA. I have the next configuration files:
>
> OPENJPA-JAR.XML
>
>
> <openejb-jar xmlns="http://www.openejb.org/xml/ns/openejb-jar-2.1";
>
> xmlns:nam="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/naming-1.1";
>
> xmlns:pkgen="http://www.openejb.org/xml/ns/pkgen-2.0";
>
> xmlns:sec="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/security-1.1";
>
> xmlns:sys="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.2";>
>
> <sys:environment>
>
>   <sys:moduleId>
>
>     <sys:groupId>o2o.marketing</sys:groupId>
>
>     <sys:artifactId>EJB</sys:artifactId>
>
>     <sys:version>1.0.8</sys:version>
>
>     <sys:type>jar</sys:type>
>
>   </sys:moduleId>
>
>   <sys:dependencies>
>
>       <sys:dependency>
>
>           <sys:groupId>console.dbpool</sys:groupId>
>
>        <sys:artifactId>marketing</sys:artifactId>
>
>        <sys:version>1.0</sys:version>
>
>          <sys:type>rar</sys:type>
>
>  </sys:dependency>
>
> </sys:dependencies>
>
> </sys:environment>
>
> </openejb-jar>
>
>
> And I have also persistence.xml
>
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>
> <persistence version="1.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence
>
> "
>
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
>
> xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence
>
> http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_1_0.xsd";>
>
> <persistence-unit name="marketing">
>
>    <description>Entity Beans for User</description>
>
>
> <provider>org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceProviderImpl</
>
> provider>
>
>    <jta-data-source>java:comp/env/marketing</jta-data-source>
>
>    <non-jta-data-source>java:comp/env/marketing</non-jta-data-source>
>
>       <mapping-file>META-INF/orm.xml</mapping-file>
>
>       <properties />
>
> </persistence-unit>
>
> </persistence>
>
>
> The error which I'm having is the next one: Unable to resolve
>
> reference
>
> "JtaDataSourceWrapper" and Unable to resolve reference
>
> "NonJtaDataSourceWrapper", which are basically the same error.
>
>
> I think this is produced because I'm not mapping the Datasocurce to
>
> the
>
> DBPool. Geronimo returns to me examples to do it for web, but no
>
> example to
>
> do it for an EJB.
>
>
> Please could you help me?
>
>
> WATCH OUT! I'm talking about entities and EJB3.0, not entiti beans and
>
> EJB2.0
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
> SERGIO
>
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