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Java EE 7 First Look

You're reading from   Java EE 7 First Look Discover the new features of Java EE 7 and learn to put them together to build a large-scale application

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849699235
Length 188 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Armel Fabrice NDJOBO Armel Fabrice NDJOBO
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Java Transaction API 1.2


The Java Transaction API 1.2 Specification was developed under JSR 907. This section just gives you an overview of improvement in the API. The complete document specification (for more information) can be downloaded from http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/mrel/jsr907/index2.html.

The Java Transaction API

The Java Transaction API (JTA) is a standard Java API for managing transactions on one or more resources (distributed transactions) in server environments. It consist of three main APIs: javax.transaction.UserTransaction interface used by applications for explicit transaction demarcation, javax.transaction.TransactionManager interface used by application servers to demarcate transactions implicitly on behalf of the application, and javax.transaction.xa.XAResource, which is a Java mapping of the standard XA interface for distributed transaction processing.

JTA in action

As we said, JTA transactions are used in Java EE environments. In order to enable this transaction...

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