Chapter 12. Transactions

This chapter provides an overview of transaction support in Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and describes some of the best practices for leveraging that support in WebSphere. One of the key components of the J2EE architecture is the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB). A prominent feature of EJBs is support for distributed transactions. EJBs execute within WebSphere’ EJB container. WebSphere also supports servlets and JSPs that run in a Web container often referred to as the servlet engine. Both containers provide a standard set of services to the application components. Services that are relevant to this chapter include the Java Transaction API (JTA), which provides declarative transaction management, and JDBC, which provides ...

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