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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:50:19 PDT

You mean "outside a JTA transaction". Because RESOURCE_LOCAL has always a resource-local "java.sql.Connection"-style transaction.

Thank you Marina.

Then in J2EE 1.4 how did they managed JTA transactions? First of all, they didn't have EntityManagerFactory nor EntityManger so were using entity beans (no JPA entity) and always CMT - container manager transaction session beans by specifing transaction attributes on classes and methods at deployement time (just like now in fact).

There wasn't the equivalent of EntityManagerFactory or EntityManager?
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