Chapter 28. Transactions in WebSphere 5.0

Transactions are one of those things that most Java programmers would rather ignore than try to understand. And, in fact, in most cases you can ignore them—the default settings of WAS and WSAD work well enough in most situations that many programmers can build large and complex applications without having to know the details about how transactions work. Unfortunately, at some point all of this blissful ignorance must end. Then you have to hunker down and learn how transactions operate in order to solve problems that have ramifications all the way up and down your architecture. We show all of the architectural layers that EJB transactions touch in Figure 28.1

Figure 28.1. Architectural road map.

In this chapter, ...

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