Chapter 7. Transactions
In this chapter we will cover the following topics:
ACID properties of a transaction
Container-managed transactions
Container-managed transaction demarcation
Session synchronization interface
Doomed transactions
Transaction isolation levels
Lost update problem
Optimistic and pessimistic locking
How EJB 3 implements optimistic locking
Bean-managed transactions and the user transaction interface
Introduction
Up to now our examples have, for the most part, used transactions by default. Most of our examples have used container-managed transactions. As the name suggests, the transaction lifecycle is controlled by the EJB container. Container-managed transactions use the Java Transaction API, or JTA. Container-managed transactions have a ...
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