Using a custom database transaction

In the Setting up BC base classes recipe in Chapter 1, Pre-requisites to Success: ADF Project Setup and Foundations, we introduced a number of custom framework extension classes for most of the ADF business components. Among these are classes that can be used to extend the global ADF framework transaction implementation, in particular the ExtDatabaseTransactionFactory and ExtDBTransactionImpl2 classes. In this recipe, we will cover how to use these classes, so that we can implement our own custom transaction implementation. The use case for this recipe will be to provide logging support for all transaction commit and rollback operations.

Getting ready

You will need to have access to the SharedComponents workspace that was developed in the Breaking up the application in multiple workspaces recipe in Chapter 1, Pre-requisites to Success: ADF Project Setup and Foundations. Additional functionality will be added to the ExtDatabaseTransactionFactory and ExtDBTransactionImpl2...