Given the positive response I’ve started by creating an API project for the 
Transaction Control Service under tx-control, I’ll move on to a 
coordinator-based solution for local transactions next. Once enough of it is 
hanging together I’ll add it to the main build so that snapshots start 
appearing in maven.

Regards,

Tim


> On 15 Feb 2016, at 13:30, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> +1
> 
> Regards
> JB
> 
> On 02/12/2016 10:23 AM, Timothy Ward wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I’m working on a new RFC with the OSGi Alliance which is about easily 
>> controlling transactions within OSGi components. Obviously Aries Blueprint 
>> has its own model for doing this, but other models, such as Declarative 
>> Services (or just raw OSGi) get no help at all. There are also issues with 
>> using proxies for transactions - internal method calls don’t breach the 
>> proxy boundary and so don’t trigger the transaction behaviours.
>> 
>> Another problem that regularly comes up on the user lists is that it’s 
>> relatively difficult to be sure that the DataSource/EntityManager/xxx you’re 
>> using is really participating in the transaction. There are a number of 
>> whiteboard enlisting solutions around, but it’s still easy to pick up the 
>> wrong service, or just to forget that you need the enlistment at all.
>> 
>> I’m proposing to do the prototyping work for this RFC in Aries, with the 
>> thought that we can provide the Reference Implementation at some point.
>> 
>> I would also like to add that the impetus for this work comes from McCarthys 
>> (http://mccarthy.co.nz <http://mccarthy.co.nz/> <http://mccarthy.co.nz/ 
>> <http://mccarthy.co.nz/>>), who are generously sponsoring my time for this 
>> development effort and Open Source contribution.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
>> P.S. The RFC document is available on GitHub here - 
>> https://github.com/osgi/design/blob/master/rfcs/rfc0221/rfc-0221-TransactionControl.pdf
>>  
>> <https://github.com/osgi/design/blob/master/rfcs/rfc0221/rfc-0221-TransactionControl.pdf>
>>  
>> <https://github.com/osgi/design/blob/master/rfcs/rfc0221/rfc-0221-TransactionControl.pdf
>>  
>> <https://github.com/osgi/design/blob/master/rfcs/rfc0221/rfc-0221-TransactionControl.pdf>>
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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