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Transactions Overview Guide

by Mark Red Hat Little

Abstract

The Transactions Overview Guide contains information on how to use JBoss Transactions to develop applications that use transaction technology to manage business processes.

Preface
1. Document Conventions
1.1. Typographic Conventions
1.2. Pull-quote Conventions
1.3. Notes and Warnings
2. We Need Feedback!
1. About This Guide
1.1. Audience
1.2. Prerequisites
2. Transactions Overview
2.1. What is a transaction?
2.2. The Coordinator
2.3. The Transaction Context
2.4. Participants
2.5. Commit protocol
2.6. The Synchronization Protocol
2.7. Optimizations to the Protocol
2.8. Non-Atomic Transactions and Heuristic Outcomes
2.9. Interposition
2.10. A New Transaction Protocol
2.10.1. Addressing the Problems of Transactioning in Loosely Coupled Systems
A. Revision History