WebLogic: The Definitive Guide

The Transaction Service

WebLogic Server provides a transaction service that allows J2EE applications to manage their own transaction boundaries. WebLogic’s transaction service supports multithreaded clients — i.e., a client can make concurrent requests for transactions in multiple threads. WebLogic Server implements flat transactions, which means that multiple transactions cannot be associated with the same thread at the same time. WebLogic supports distributed transactions that may span multiple WebLogic servers, clusters, and even domains.

The EJB container uses WebLogic’s transaction service to coordinate transactions across EJB components. EJBs that support bean-managed transactions and J2EE applications both use the JTA to explicitly manage their own transactions. J2EE clients can obtain the UserTransaction and TransactionManager objects from the JNDI tree and use these interfaces to demarcate their transaction boundaries. This allows lightweight clients to begin and commit transactions, and delegate the actual responsibility of coordinating the transaction to the remote transaction manager running on WebLogic Server.

Using JTA Transactions

The JTA defines the contract between the transaction manager and all resources involved in a distributed transaction — i.e., the application, the application server, and the resource manager. It allows you to coordinate updates to multiple resources in a safe, elegant way, regardless of the transaction manager. The transaction manager ...