Explicit Transaction Processing Behavior

Oracle recommends that you use default transaction behavior whenever possible. However, you can define your published business service or business service to explicitly manage transactions. To handle the transaction correctly in the business service, you must understand the detailed transaction behavior of the business function being called.

The published business service protected method and all business service methods are required to have both IContext and IConnection as part of their signature, as are any calls to business functions or database operations. If you are using default transaction processing, the connection can be null. If you use explicit transaction processing, you must provide an explicit connection, either auto or manual commit. When you use an explicit connection, you decide whether having multiple transactions is appropriate and whether they are auto commit or manual commit connections. If you create an explicit transaction from your business service, you are not required to check for null on the connection before using it, because the foundation classes ensure that the connection is never null. If the token is dropped, a runtime connection is thrown, which is consistent with the default transaction processing.