The Transaction Manager, the Transaction Synchronization Registry, and UserTransaction

To access a UserTransaction instance, you can either look it up using the java:comp/UserTransaction JNDI name or inject it using the @Resource annotation.

Accessing a DataSource using the Synchronization.beforeCompletion() method requires setting Allow Non Component Callers to true. The default is false. For more information about non-component callers, see Allowing Non-Component Callers.

If possible, you should use the javax.transaction.TransactionSynchronizationRegistry interface instead of javax.transaction.TransactionManager, for portability. You can look up the implementation of this interface by using the JNDI name java:comp/TransactionSynchronizationRegistry. For details, see the Javadoc page for Interface TransactionSynchronizationRegistry and Java Specification Request (JSR) 907.

If accessing the javax.transaction.TransactionManager implementation is absolutely necessary, you can look up the GlassFish Server implementation of this interface using the JNDI name java:appserver/TransactionManager. This lookup should not be used by the application code.