You know, it's somewhat hard for me to believe it, but just a few days ago I somewhat succeeded on the similar task, and it cost me some time and nerves, as I am too a bit new to such things. I've posted the result of my epopee here: http://th1rty7.blogspot.com/2009/03/spring-distributed-transactions-across.html
And I too would like to hear some comments on which tx manager to choose. On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Kaspar Fischer <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear list, > > I am a Jackrabbit newbie and am trying to get Jackrabbit running in the > following context: > > - Tomcat 5.5 or 6 > - Spring 2.5.6 > - MySQL or db4o (not clear yet) > - Jackrabbit > > In particular, I want to get transactions running, encompassing Jackrabbit > and MySQL/db4o. > > I have search via Google to see whether I need an external transaction > manager for this, as Tomcat does not provide Container Managed Transactions. > I have seen a few posts on Jencks and Atomikos, and the introduction > "Integrating Java Content Repository and Spring" at > > http://www.infoq.com/articles/spring-modules-jcr > > To be on the safe side I'd like to know whether for my particular context > this is still up-to-date: Do I need Jencks/Atomikos/some other transaction > manager in order to use Jackrabbit and one more database under Spring? > > If so, do you recommend Jencks or Atomikos? > > Many thanks for any pointers, > Kaspar > -- sp
