Thank you very much Dominique, these guidelines are really important as they are the first ones I came across all this time that have showed me a way to try and embed transaction handling with application server.
I tried to do what you suggested but still have problems with rar deployment. I just wanted to report to the list that I think I found a small error in the example ds file in deploy/jboss/4.x. The connection definition tag should be (according to JBoss documentation) the ConnectionFactory interface defined in the ra.xml NOT the connection interface. Therefore instead of <connection-definition>javax.jcr.Session</connection-definition> it should be <connection-definition>javax.jcr.Repository</connection-definition> right? Sth else, should the rar be deployed as part of an ear or standalone? I try to deploy it standalone for the time being, but I get a "Could not create connection factory exception". I know this is application server specific and I have been looking into relevant docs/forums but if somebody has tried what Dominique suggests and has come across similar behaviour please shed some light on what could be the problem. Thanks. regards Giota -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dominique Pfister Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:43 AM To: jackrabbit-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Beginners JTA question Hi Kevin, The UserTransactionImpl in Jackrabbit is used solely for testing purposes, where you usually don't have an application server within reach, sorry, if this is confusing. In order to make Jackrabbit work as an XA resource, you have to make it available as a resource adapter (RA) in your application server. There is a contribution named jca in the contrib directory that packages jackrabbit into a deployable RAR (resource adapter archive). For BEA, you'll probably want to add a weblogic-ra.xml to the RAR's META-INF folder that specifies the JNDI name where your RA will be made available to applications. Finally, your web application will need a resource-ref entry that has to be linked to the RA's JNDI name. If you then reference this resource in your code: Repository rep = (Repository) new InitialContext().lookup("java:comp/env/jackrabbit"); it will automatically be enlisted as an XAResource in BEA's UserTransaction. Cheers Dominique On 1/11/06, Kevin Wiggen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry if this question is a newbie to JTA question, but I have been > looking at the jackrabbit code and I can't figure the following out. > > > > I want to use Jackrabbit in my BEA container and use JTA to coordinate > the transaction with Jackrabbit and my other JTA transactional > resources. The other resources already are plugged into the BEA world > and code uses the BEA UserTransaction to coordinate the interaction > between these resources. > > > > The short question is how do I wire up Jackrabbit to work in this world? > > > > From what I see (and I can be completely looking in the wrong spot), > Jackrabbit uses XASessionImpl to appear as a XAResource, and I see in > XATest how the Jackrabbit UserTransactionImpl is used to get a > Jackrabbit specific UserTransaction, but I already have my own > UserTransaction (well BEA's). > > > > Am I missing something obvious? I just don't see how I can get > Jackrabbit to play in my UserTransaction world.... > > > > Thanks for the help, > > Kevin > > >
