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EJB multiple datasource transaction example

08 May 2014

In this article we will see how to configure EJB transactions across multiple datasources

Sometimes we may need our EJB transactions to spawn across multiple datasources. For this to be possible one must take advantage of the enterprise container Transaction Manager and the Java transactio... Read more

Spring JTA multiple resource transactions in Tomcat with Atomikos example

17 June 2013

In this tutorial you will learn how to configure a JTA transaction manager outside an enterprise container - using the Spring framework and Atomikos, both deployed in Tomcat - in order to implement distributed multiple resource (or XA) transactions.

Distributed multiple resource transactions in Java are usually accomplished by resorting to the Java Transaction API (JTA). One usually delegates the task of distributed transaction coordination to an... Read more

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