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Re: [Fwd: Comment on Nested Transactions]

From: Marina Vatkina <Marina.Vatkina_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:00:12 -0700

Hello Gordon,

I'm wondering if there is a way to find this out?

thanks,
-marina

Gordon Yorke wrote On 04/05/06 06:11,:
> Hello Marina, I am not sure how this fellow believes he is getting nested
> transactions. There are no nested transaction API's in TopLink Essentials.
> The only thing that I can imagine is use of multiple Application Persistence
> Contexts or perhaps a creative use of clear as rollback. He may have
> misinterpreted some source. I saw this email on the EJB 3.0 feedback mailing
> list but there is no specifics on how nested transactions would be achieved.
> I am curious to know how he has invisioned it. --Gordon
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Marina Vatkina
> [mailto:Marina.Vatkina_at_Sun.COM] Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 5:39 PM To:
> persistence Subject: [Fwd: Comment on Nested Transactions]
>
>
> Peter, Tom,
>
> What kind of nested transactions does TopLink support in Glassfish? Is it
> possible to use EM apis for that?
>
> thanks, -marina
>
> -------- Original Message -------- From: Don Brady <dbrady_at_comintel.com>
> Subject: Comment on Nested Transactions
>
>
> It appears that the Glassfish / Oracle reference implementation does/will
> support nested transactions. Inner transactions are committed to the
> containing transaction. Actual writing to the database is performed only
> when the outermost transaction is committed.
>
> However, I can find no reference to nested transactions in the PFD itself.
>
> Also, it appears that Hibernate and Kodo do not/ will not support them.
>
> It would be nice to see at least some discussion of nested transaction in the
> final draft, even if it just says that such support is optional.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Don Brady Comintel Inc. dbrady_at_comintel.com 919-469-8565
>