Transaction recovery
Although XA transactions possess the ACID characteristics in order to guarantee the atomicity of operations, our system must be able to handle failures in order to guarantee the consistency of customer data, which can occur at any time due to unexpected server crash or network loss.
To guarantee transaction consistency, Infinispan supports transaction recovery, a well known feature of XA transactions, present in the specification published by the Open Group.
Let's suppose a situation where a customer buys from Ticket Monster, a ticket for a specific show, but we have to save the ticket in two different nodes in Infinispan. The Transaction Manager will be responsible for communicating with both resources that are in use.
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