Re: [jBoss-Dev]rmi,transactions,orbs[was:TransactionImpl](multiple threads per Tx)

[Rickard Oberg]

Hi!

> Be careful about assumptions here. In a pure EJB world
> the river cannot split, but not all environments are pure
> EJB.
>
> Example:
> A bean starts a transaction and calls some non-EJB system
> by using a resource. This non-EJB system starts two threads
> for doing some work in parallel, and the river has split.
> Now these two threads may both call EJB systems with the
> original transactional context...

I'm pretty sure that the above is something that is not allowed, i.e.
forking threads does not mean that the tx is in the forked thread as well.

My case still holds IMO: there is only one logical thread of execution per
transaction.

/Rickard