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Oracle GlassFish Server 3.1 Application Development Guide
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Preface

Part I Development Tasks and Tools

1.  Setting Up a Development Environment

2.  Class Loaders

3.  Debugging Applications

Part II Developing Applications and Application Components

4.  Securing Applications

5.  Developing Web Services

6.  Using the Java Persistence API

7.  Developing Web Applications

8.  Using Enterprise JavaBeans Technology

9.  Using Container-Managed Persistence

10.  Developing Java Clients

11.  Developing Connectors

12.  Developing Lifecycle Listeners

13.  Developing OSGi-enabled Java EE Applications

Part III Using Services and APIs

14.  Using the JDBC API for Database Access

15.  Using the Transaction Service

Handling Transactions with Databases

Using JDBC Transaction Isolation Levels

Using Non-Transactional Connections

Handling Transactions with Enterprise Beans

Flat Transactions

Global and Local Transactions

Commit Options

Bean-Level Container-Managed Transaction Timeouts

Handling Transactions with the Java Message Service

Transactions and Non-Persistent Messages

Using the ConfigurableTransactionSupport Interface

The Transaction Manager, the Transaction Synchronization Registry, and UserTransaction

16.  Using the Java Naming and Directory Interface

17.  Using the Java Message Service

18.  Using the JavaMail API

Index

Chapter 15

Using the Transaction Service

The Java EE platform provides several abstractions that simplify development of dependable transaction processing for applications. This chapter discusses Java EE transactions and transaction support in the Oracle GlassFish Server.

The following topics are addressed here:

For more information about the Java Transaction API (JTA) and Java Transaction Service (JTS), see Chapter 19, Administering Transactions, in Oracle GlassFish Server 3.1 Administration Guide and the following sites: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaee/jta/index.html and http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaee/tech/index.html.

You might also want to read Chapter 44, Transactions, in The Java EE 6 Tutorial.