It's "suspend the transaction", which one? the one associated with the
thread.
The call we need is "remove the association" but DON"T suspend the
transaction (the transaction can keep on running)
is it clearer?
marc
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> Hi!
>
> marc fleury wrote:
> > Resume and suspend are used to resume and suspend the
> "Transaction" as in
> > "suspend this transaction".
> > We need to resume and suspend the association of the Thread to the
> > transaction (under JOnAS this was clear, they knew transactions, it was
> > getPropagationContext and setPropagationContext).
>
> Still unclear about the difference, since the JTA docs say on suspend():
> "Suspend the transaction currently associated with the calling thread
> and return a Transaction object that
> represents the transaction context being suspended. If the calling
> thread is not associated with a
> transaction, the method returns a null object reference. When this
> method returns, the calling thread is
> associated with no transaction."
> and on resume():
> "Resume the transaction context association of the calling thread with
> the transaction represented by the
> supplied Transaction object. When this method returns, the calling
> thread is associated with the transaction
> context specified."
>
> What would be the difference between suspend/resume and
> setPropagationContext/getPropagationContext? Also, since the transaction
> is literally moving to another execution thread during the call I think
> it would be appropriate to use suspend on send and resume on return
> since otherwise the same transaction will be associated with several
> execution threads at once.
>
> /Rickard
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