"UserTransaction" is not the right lookup name. We allowed it for some
time, but decided against it in 3.1. Try the spec defined
"java:comp/UserTransaction".
-marina
Phillip Ross wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm still attempting to update test code from 3.0.1 to 3.1 and am
> running into a new set of issues. In 3.0 I was able to define a
> single persistence.xml with a persistence unit defining a
> transaction-type of JTA. When running with the embedded EJB
> container, I was able to lookup EJBs that had entity managers injected
> and use the entity managers inside the EJBs with container managed
> transactions. I was ALSO able to lookup the JTA UserTransaction
> object outside of an EJB, and create an entity manager using the
> javax.persistence.Persistence class which would look something like
> the following:
>
> UserTransaction userTransaction =
> (UserTransaction)context.lookup("UserTransaction");
> EntityManager entityManager =
> Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("default").createEntityManager();
>
> This entityManager was able to work alongside of the userTransaction
> to execute JTA-based user managed transactions and JPA persistence:
>
> userTransaction.begin();
> entityManager.joinTransaction();
> entityManager.persistence(someEntity);
> userTransaction.commit();
>
> So the transaction management and entity persistence seemed to be
> integrated nicely in the embedded container for 3.0. As of 3.1, the
> code now generates exceptions when trying to have the entity manager
> join the transaction:
>
> javax.persistence.TransactionRequiredException:
> Exception Description: No transaction is currently active
> at
> org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.transaction.EntityTransactionWrapper.throwCheckTransactionFailedException(EntityTransactionWrapper.java:113)
> at
> org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.transaction.EntityTransactionWrapper.checkForTransaction(EntityTransactionWrapper.java:50)
> at
> org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.EntityManagerImpl.checkForTransaction(EntityManagerImpl.java:1666)
> at
> org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.EntityManagerImpl.joinTransaction(EntityManagerImpl.java:1698)
>
> It appears to be the case that the persistence context and transaction
> manager can no longer find each other in 3.1.
>
> Do I have to do something extra as of v3.1 to get the persistence
> contexts integrated with the transaction manager?
>
> Thanks
> - Phillip
>