JMS and Transactions

The JMS acknowledgment modes provide varying levels of reliability for message consumers, but enterprise applications often require stronger, transactional guarantees. For instance, an application might need to dequeue a message, update some database tables, and enqueue the message on another JMS queue. If any of these operations fails or a system failure occurs, the entire operation should roll back to its original state. JMS offers two transactional options: transacted sessions and an integration with the WebLogic Server's Java Transaction API (JTA) transaction service.

Using Transacted Sessions

Transacted sessions are used when transactional behavior is required within a single JMS session. Other resources such as database ...

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