XA Resources

Our discussion in this chapter has focused on the use of connection caches as managed by EAServer's default Shared Connection transaction coordinator. EAServer, however, also provides for the use of distributed transactions and XA resources via more sophisticated transaction coordinators listed on the Transactions tab of the EAServer server properties dialog box, as shown in Figure 19.11.

Figure 19.11. EAServer transaction coordinators.

The Shared Connection coordinator is the default and restricts the scope of each EAServer transaction to a single connection cache. In most cases, this is sufficient because many applications target ...

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