Hello Rui,
Ok, since you want it, we'll implement it. It's put up as a feature request, so
expect it in about a week.
Rui Gil wrote:
> Hi Karl,
>
> Well, you're right, as far as I know the specification doesn't say
> that this should be implemented, but it doesn't say the opposite
> either... and this is a common feature around J2EE servers. So I
> really hope that the Orion team implement this one quickly...
>
> I don't understand why the implementation is not going to be portable,
> aren't we talking about standard interfaces here ?
It will not be portable since it's outside the specification of the platform.
You're looking somethign up from the environment that the specification isn't
saying will be there. That's like relying on System properties that might be
there on some platforms, but not on some. You are using a standard interface to
access the systerm properties, but they will not always be there.
This means that your application will not be "pure J2EE" and work on every J2EE
server, but as long as you're ok with that, it's no problem, except for the
usual problems of transaction demarcation from the client (network latency
making the transactions long, and with many clients, you could get many long
transactions going...)
Moving your transaction demarcation across the network to the session beans on
the server will usually help your application to perform better.
Regards,
Karl Avedal
