Sun Java System Message Queue 4.3 Administration Guide

Use of Transactions

A transaction is a guarantee that all messages produced in a transacted session and all messages consumed in a transacted session will be either processed or not processed (rolled back) as a unit.

Message Queue supports both local and distributed transactions.

A message produced or acknowledged in a transacted session is slower than in a nontransacted session for the following reasons:


Note –

To improve performance, Message Queue message brokers are configured by default to use a memory-mapped file to store transaction data. On file systems that do not support memory-mapped files, you can disable this behavior by setting the broker property imq.persist.file.transaction.memorymappedfile.enabled to false.