From: Craig Ringer <ringerc_at_ringerc.id.au>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:46:52 +0800

Hi all

This extremely well written article on some of the issues with the JTA
API may be worth a read when thinking about EE 7 or 8.

http://blog.bitronix.be/2011/02/why-we-need-jta-2-0/

I've felt the author's pain on several of those points, particularly the
inability to implement REQUIRES_NEW using bean managed transactions.

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Craig Ringer